“Years later, my father made a passing reference to the uncanny-valley response – the human aversion to things that look almost but not quite like people. The uncanny-valley response is a hard thing to define, much less to test for. But if true, it explains why the faces of chimps so unsettle some of us.”

“Years later, my father made a passing reference to the uncanny-valley response – the human aversion to things that look almost but not quite like people. The uncanny-valley response is a hard thing to define, much less to test for. But if true, it explains why the faces of chimps so unsettle some of us.”

— Karen Joy Fowler