‘As a human, I’m horrified’: Harvard studies on infant monkeys draw fire from primatologists and animal rights activists

DAVID GRIMM: Primatologists and animal rights activists are condemning monkey studies in the laboratory of Harvard University neuroscientist Margaret Livingstone. The work, which involves removing newborns from their mothers and, in two cases in 2016, suturing their eyelids shut to understand how the primate brain processes faces, is cruel and unethical, they say. But some … Continue reading ‘As a human, I’m horrified’: Harvard studies on infant monkeys draw fire from primatologists and animal rights activists