when surrounded by dozy and needy women who'd anthropomorphise a car tyre given half a chance.
Oh and there's a chimp that pretty much acts like a chimp throughout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s47ArcQL-XQ
And who still wears his hair in the same combed-over way since the '70s.
Shame is not this man's strong point.
When darkness overcomes the heart, Lil' Slugger appears...
I think the whole lot of them lacked self awareness - too lost in that seventies hippy mindset.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY28YL8Z8r0
That's a good way of putting it by the OP. But this experiment was also done in the 70's when the nature/nurture debate was hot. Now we know that chimps can never really be unprogrammed to be the way they are. If we wouldn't have had this experiment we wouldn't have known.
shareI don't think we needed this "experiment." Scientific standards on Project Nim were so lax that this was just a goofy "What if?" game. 98.7% of the outcome could have been determined from a combo of common sense and library study.
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Please put some dashes above your sig line so I won't think it's part of your dumb post.
Yeah, this was really not a case of 'breaking some eggs to make an omelete'. They just wanted to 'throw some crazy at the wall and see what sticks', beause it was the '70s and everythink that went before was WRONG!!!
There have been other human-raised monkeys (pets aught in the wild, orphaned zoo-animals, etc) before and none of them learned to speak. There was no reason to think an ape would magially learn sign-language from being around humans who barely spoke sign-language themselves.