Tag: apes
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Tools: God. Humans. Apes.
Flexible tool use is closely associated to higher mental processes such as the ability to plan actions. Now a group of cognitive biologists and comparative psychologists found out that the apes carefully weighed their options. To do so the apes considered the details such as differences in quality between the two food rewards and the…
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Human culture. Ape's culture. Human stupidity.
The ability to build up knowledge over generations, called cumulative culture, has given humankind language and technology. While it was thought to be limited to humans until now, researchers have recently found that baboons are also capable of cumulative culture. (1) We believe culture is about language and technology. But this is not culture. Apes…
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Reading books. Making things. Darwin right. Darwin wrong...
In the small town of Fayetteville in northern New York, you'll find the local library in an old furniture factory dating from the turn of the 20th century. The refurbished building retains hints of its industrial past: wooden floors, exposed beams, walls lined with carefully labelled tools. But instead of quietly perusing stacks of books,…
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Mimicking apes, Knowing humans...
NEED to learn a new language but would rather watch TV shows instead? A new software app aims to let you do both at once. Once downloaded, Fleex extracts the subtitle data in video footage stored on your computer or online – whether it's a movie in the language you want to learn or…
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BBC and Apes, the new generation!
The initial page of the BBC.co.uk is full of news concerning apes and other primates. How apes communicate with iPads (!!! Yes you read correctly), how apes change their behaviour depending on who is watching them in the zoo et cetera et cetera... Some people claim that "what you want becomes reality". After so much…
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