ABSTRACT
Animal behavior is worthy of study in its own right, even if it were never applied to human beings, but the present controversies stem from the use of animal behavior to understand human behavior. Studies about the communication of many mammals, birds, and insects have revived interest in the old and important problem of the origin of talking. The studies of ape communication have been particularly exciting and have opened a new area for scientific investigation. The behavioral problem has three aspects: to understand the human system, to compare it, and to speculate on its evolution. Language is the behavior that distinguishes human social behavior from the social behavior of the other primates. For a long time it dominated both social and biological science and it became a part of the general climate of opinion. Ethologists often compare the behavior of highly diversified animals to that of human beings, often to the behavior of a single tribe.
