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Animals  and  Human  Culture  Week  1  Notes    
Kellog  Reading    
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The  Wild  Boy  of  Aveyron  
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Wolf  Girls  of  India    
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 Nurture    
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 their  upbringing    
b
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Environment  becomes  less  influential  with  age    
d
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Eugenics  vs
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Instead  of  placing  a  child  in  the  wild,  they  decided  to  place  an  animal  
in  civilization    
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The  chimp  must  be  given  child  stimuli    
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The  idea  was  to  see  if  an  ape  grew  up  to  be  inferior  to  the  child  it  
would  mean  that  hereditary  and  genetics  would  be  the  most  
important    
b
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Gua,  a  female  chimp,  was  taken  from  her  mother  at  7  and  a  half  
months  of  age  and  lived  with  a  human  boy  named  Donald  for  2  years    
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Although  Donald  was  taller/bigger,  Gua  grew  more  relative  to  her  
proportions    
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Much  more  muscular  power  and  was  more  active    
d
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Learning  (not  under  pressure)  
a
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She  had  more  dexterity  in  opening  and  closing  things    
c
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Conclusion    
a
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The  environment  was  the  activating  factor  in  bringing  out  the  
potentialities  of  the  subjects  for  similar  development    
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Environmental  likeness:  upright  walking,  play  reactions,  many  tasks    

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Psychological  environment  was  the  most  important  factor  in  her  
advancements    
g
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Better  senses:  experiments  to  animals  are  more  detrimental  than  we  
can  fathom,  causes  experiments  to  be  flawed  and  invalid    
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People    
a
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 Lemmon:  director  of  chimpanzee  facility  in  Oklahoma  that  Nim  
was  taken  from    
b
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Jenny  Lee:  Stephanie’s  daughter,  Nim’s  human  sibling    
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Laura:  Herb’s  research  assistant  and  Nim’s  first  sign  language  teacher,  
created  the  educational  aspect  of  the  project    
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Joyce  Butler:  Nim’s  teacher  after  Laura  left  due  to  sexual  affairs  with  
Herb    
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Bob:  Nim’s  true  human  friend  in  the  Oklahoma  facility,  fought  for  his  
release  from  the  lab  facility  
j
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 James  Mahoney:  veterinary  researcher  testing  vaccines  fro  
AIDS/Hepatitis  in  chimpanzees,  buys  the  Oklahoma  chimps  and  tests  
on  them    
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Cleveland/Black  Beauty  Ranch:  sanctuary  that  takes  Nim  in  after  he’s  
released  from  the  lab    
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 He  
learned  to  beg  and  knew  how  to  manipulate  people  into  getting  what  he  
wanted
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