"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.See, I still can remember things.The story was originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1947, and is collected in the book Assignment in Eternity.
Similar to “The Positronic Man” by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg.
A novel about a robot that gradually becomes human over a space of 200 years.
It was made into a 1999 movie called “The Bicentennial Man” starring Robin Williams and Sam Neill.............