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Body & mind 27 min

Harlow's Monkeys

He proved babies need love by 1959. Then he spent fifteen years proving it again.

Harry Harlow set out to prove that love was a biological necessity, and by 1959 he had. He spent the next fifteen years proving it again, in experiments his own lab dismantled the moment he retired, while his life collapsed in parallel. This is the story of what happened after the science was already won.

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