“Testing the mental capabilities of chimps tells us important things about our own capacity. What we often find is that antecedents of human behavior and reasoning exist in chimps in a more primitive form, suggesting that we humans have elaborated on the mental abilities of the common ancestor we shared with chimps, rather than developing totally new capacities.Often lost in these considerations is the possibility that chimps have actually elaborated some mental abilities more dramatically than humans.” from John Timmer’s article on ars technica.

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