Q&A: The interpreter | Nature

_In 1973, Herbert Terrace, a psychologist at Columbia University in New York, embarked on an experiment to teach sign language to an infant chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky, after linguist Noam

Chomsky. On the release of the documentary_ Project Nim, _Terrace talks about research ethics, chimp cognition and the origins of language._ Access through your institution Buy or subscribe

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