Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.(via RichardDawkins.net)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man
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