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"Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human"
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New York, USA (Salon): While nonhumans may communicate with one another, Noam Chomsky the MIT linguist said, they are fundamentally incapable of language. Columbia University professor Herbert Terrace set out to disprove the assertion with an ambitious and groundbreaking study. The experiment that followed involved a cleverly named chimpanzee and some less-than-clever human choices. The fascinating, ultimately heartbreaking account has finally been told in journalist Elizabeth Hess' primate biography, "Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human."
For more information, please visit:
www.salon.com/books/int/2008/03/31/Nim_Chimpsky/
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