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The RELICT HOMINOID INQUIRY 1:83 (2012)

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DR. H. JOINS THE RHI EDITORIAL BOARD

Dr. Miles received her celebrities founded by British musician Peter doctorate from the Gabriel to support enculturated and foster University of Connecticut great communication and conservation. in 1978. She is UC She teaches courses in behavior, ape Foundation Professor of language, linguistic , and Anthropology at the physical anthropology, and has won a Student University of Tennessee, Government Association Outstanding Chattanooga. She is a Professor Award and a College of Arts and primatologist with research interests in great Sciences Research Prize. She is a world ape language and cognition, the of percussionist with several -based symbolic systems, behavior, African drumming groups, and has her own and of great apes and others. She band, Nation, which features music is Director of Project , a study of the co-composed and performed by Chantek. sign language ability, cognitive, and cultural development of an enculturated orangutan, [source: http://www.utc.edu/Academic/Sociology Chantek. She is the author of over 100 AnthropologyAndGeography/staff/ lyn-miles.php] scientific publications and papers and co- editor of The Mentality of and (Cambridge University Press), and Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and (SUNY Press). Her research is featured in documentary films on the Discovery Channel, A&E, PBS, Animal Planet, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine, and London Sunday Times Magazine. Miles is Research Director and President of the Chantek Foundation, and President of Ape-Net, a consortium of foundations and

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