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Robert Yerkes

Robert Mearns Yerkes (1876 - 1956) worked in the field of comparative psychology and developed the Army Alpha intelligence[?] test, given to over 1 million United States soldiers in World War I. He founded the Yale University Laboratories of Primate Biology, which were renamed for him and moved to Emory University

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