Comment les chimpanzés ont domestiqué l'homme

This article presents examples of research on the linguistic capabilities of chimpanzees to demonstrate that, far from being purely psycho-linguistic as they are always described, these studies lead to the experimental creation of hybrid communities, human/animal, that share senses, interests and affects and in which man himself is placed in a position that makes him the cognitive prosthesis for the primate. This phenomenon can be described as a case of «mutual cognitive domestication » of man and animal and leads to fundamental cognitive problems. Through these communications between humans and animals and these processes of « credited intelligence », the text shows that this project on a major cognitive anthropology very much exceeds the simple application of the cognitive psychology results to anthropology, that it includes both animals and humans and that it can serve as a foundation for a remaking of the concept of Cognitive and Social Sciences

Animal cognition · Biology · Cognition · Cognitive science · Domestication · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Socio-cognitive · Sociology · French Language Learning Methods · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Ecology