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Jul. 29, 2011
Teaching A Chimp To Speak In ‘Project Nim’
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| Are humans the only animals capable of using language? A controversial scientific experiment in the 1970s attempted to answer that question. A new documentary looks at the scientists behind that experiment, who raised a chimp as a human and tried to teach him sign language. |
Produced by Katherine Wells
Guests
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Bob Ingersoll
Primatologist
President, Mindy’s Memory Primate Sanctuary
San Francisco, California -
Jenny Lee
Landscape Architect
New York, New York -
Jon Cohen
Author, "Almost Chimpanzee: Searching For What Makes Us Human, In Rainforests, Labs, Sanctuaries, and Zoos" (Times Books, 2010)
Correspondent, Science Magazine
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California
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