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Jerry Was a Man
1947 short story by Robert A. Heinlein
"Jerry Was a Man" (1947) is a short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It is about an attempt by a genetically modified chimpanzee to achieve human rights. The main theme of the story is civil liberties, in this case extended towards a group of genetically enhanced chimpanzees to allow them equal rights under the law.
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The story was originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1947, and is collected in the book Assignment in Eternity.