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Doctor Dolittle had it wrong, but animals do communicate

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

“Doctor Dolittle, despite his good intentions, was laboring under a misapprehension,” writes Stephen Anderson, professor of linguistics and psychology at Yale, in his new book “Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language” (Yale, $35).
Hugh Lofting’s early 20th Century novels about a doctor who converses with animals may be delightful works of literature, [...]

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