Dialogues on the Human ApeA primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a human animal Humanness is typically defined by our capacity for language and abstract thinking. Yet decades of research led by the primatologist Sue Savage Rumbaugh has shown that chimpanzees and bonobos can acquire human language through signing and technology. Drawing on this research, Dialogues of the Human Ape brings Savage Rumbaugh into conversation with the philosopher