Dr. Laura-Ann Petitto worked on the landmark study at Columbia University, New York (Terrace, PI), where she was the Project Coordinator of a bold, daring, and dangerous new experiment called “Project NIM.” The project involved a chimpanzee named NIM CHIMPSKY, named after Noam Chomsky. As Project Coordinator, Petitto instructed approximately 50 individuals in the recording and analysis of the chimpanzee’s cognitive, language, and socialemotional developments, yet the task involved more. Petitto was Nim’s primary teacher of American Sign Language (ASL)—a daunting task that required that Petitto live with the chimpanzee and work with him spanning 3 years, the longest of any other. Although the chimpanzee did not acquire language as found in humans, the chimpanzee’s brilliant mind shed thrilling light on the contents of its mental world as well as insights into how our human mind came to be. Presently, Dr. Petitto is writing a book about the extraordinary experience of living face-to-face, daily, with another species – so near and yet so far from us in tantalizing ways – in which she will lay bare for the first time secrets of ape and human minds never before revealed.