NOT A CHIMP

Are we humans simply remodelled apes? Chimps with a tweak? Is the difference between our genomes so minuscule it justifies the argument that our cognition and behaviour must also differ from chimps by barely a whisker? If “chimps are us” should we grant them human rights? Or is this one of the biggest fallacies in the study of evolution? NOT A CHIMP argues that these similarities have been grossly over-exaggerated - we should keep chimps at arm’s length. Are humans cognitively unique after all?

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

No third-party punishment in chimpanzees

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/22/1203179109.abstract?etoc

The research machine headed by Mike Tomasello at EVA Leipzig has been comparing chimpanzees to humans with respect to social justice. Humans will punish a third party even if they themselves are not the prime subject of injury. Chimpanzees will by-stand while one chimpanzee robs another and there is no third-party policing of behaviour.

NOT A CHIMP

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

No third-party punishment in chimpanzees

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