Herbert S. Terrace obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1961, where he studied with B. F. Skinner. Since then he has taught at Columbia University in the Departments of Psychology and ...

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You get a bad feeling early in Project Nim, the brilliant, traumatizing documentary by James Marsh (Man on Wire). Nim was a chimpanzee who—I can’t bring myself to use “that”—in 1973 became a test ...

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