In the early 1970s, Columbia University psychology professor Herbert Terrace speculated that if a chimpanzee were raised like a human child in a human home and taught sign language — because chimps ...

"Project Nim," a documentary by Oscar-winning director James Marsh, is a heartwarming and heartbreaking story about a home-bred, pot-smoking, cookie-chomping chimpanzee called Nim Chimpsky. Nim was ...

In 1973, Herbert Terrace, a Columbia University professor of psychology, took an enormous gamble: He had the idea that if a chimp were raised like a human child and taught American Sign Language, it ...

Researchers may have taught a chimp named Nim to communicate via sign language back in the mid-’70s, but it was humans who learned the most from the experiment, as detailed in director James Marsh‘s ...

In 1973, an infant chimpanzee was taken from his mother's arms and sent to live with a human family as part of a Columbia University psychology experiment. The goal of the project was to see if the ...

On the surface a simple documentary about a chimpanzee raised as a human, director James Marsh’s Project Nim quickly unfolds into something far more intriguing and complex. Detailing Professor Herbert ...