Through their attempts to teach language to apes, anthropologists have learned that
A) with time chimpanzees, but not gorillas, will speak like humans.
B) while apes use signs to indicate what they want, they never express their emotions through signs.
C) apes learn language more easily and rapidly than human babies do.
D) apes cannot produce human speech because their tongues are the wrong shape.
E) some apes have learned to combine signs creatively to convey new meanings.
E
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