H. Lynn Miles | |
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| Born | August 5, 1944 |
| Education | Ph.D. in anthropology, University of Connecticut (1978) |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
H. Lyn Miles (born August 5, 1944) is an American bio-cultural anthropologist and animal rights advocate. Miles is known for a 1970s experiment in which a baby orangutan named Chantek was videotaped during sign language acquisition. She was teaching sign language providing a full human experience in the immersive-participant-observation way, the same way human babies are taught during infancy.