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The Story of Coco
In the early 19 seventies, a 20 something psychologist named penny patterson wanted to see if it was possible to teach a gorilla a human language. She spent the next four decades doing just that. Was coco this incredible outlier, or was this just another case of humans believing whatever we want to belieieve? What exactly happened during this experiment? And are we humans really the only species of language?