What can we learn from the controversial history of ape language research?

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Contribute to a really cool experiment see if you can interpret chimpanzee gestures!:
http://www.greatapedictionary.com
Here's a good overview of the ethical and scientific questions around Kanzi and Koko:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_...
Here's Herbert Terrace's famouse Science paper:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology...
The contentious back and forth between Terrace and Penny Patterson
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1980/...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1980/...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1981/...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
One of Terrace's students takes on Patterson's claims:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
A blistering assessment of Terrace's work from moral philosopher Peter Singer:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/...
Evidence that bonobos have mental representations of words:
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

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