Can a voice box be transplanted into a young chimp?

Subject: Can a voice box be transplanted into a young chimp?

Date: Sat Nov 13 14:33:41 1999
Posted by Vernon Nord
Grade level: grad (science) School: No school entered.
City: Morris State/Province: MN Country: USA
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 942521621.Gb

Message:


Hi,  A recent advance in medicine was the successful transplant of a human 
voice box into a person who needed one.  (Readers Digest)  With the immune 
suppressing drugs now available, and some work on interspecies transplants, 
and the success with teaching chimps sign language, will someone transplant 
a human voice box into a young chimp, and teach him language?  What would he 
say?

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