"I’ll take you apart. Look, we don’t deny that apes and monkeys learn. They are bright, and they learn continuously. As soon as a situation changes, or a new ability matures, learning is overlaid on innate qualities, and it becomes difficult to tell them apart. But the innate components are there."
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in Deborah Blum, "Love According to Harry Harlow", Observer Vol.25, No.1 January, 2012
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