Released in the same week as Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes in 2011, Project Nim is the story of an experiment started in 1973 to see if raising a chimp in a human family and teaching it signing would result in it acquiring language skills. Headed up by Herbert S Terrace at Columbia University, 'Nim Chimpsky' (a play on Noam Chomsky, the famous human language theorist) was … [Read more...]
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