Lyn Miles

H. Lynn Miles
Born (1944-08-05) August 5, 1944 (age 80)
EducationPh.D. in anthropology, University of Connecticut (1978)
OccupationAnthropologist

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.