Via Discovery:
Orphaned infant chimpanzees that received attentive, nurturing care from human surrogate mothers were found to be more intellectually advanced than the average human baby when both groups were compared at the age of nine months, according to a new study published in the latest issue of Developmental Psychobiology.
Any regular reader to this blog knows [...]
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This monkey in Mexico learned how to unscrew a water bottle. I wonder how he figured it out. Did someone teach the monkey? Or did he figure it out on his [...]
This should come as no surprise to readers of this blog. Reuters has the scoop:
Chimps performed about as well as college students at mental addition, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests non-verbal math skills are not unique to humans.
Essentially the difference is language. Humans need to verbalize with each [...]
