Follow new studies of chimpanzee populations. Chimpanzees are humans' closest relative. We can learn a lot about evolutionary and developmental psychology from chimps.
Seems we can learn quite a bit about ourselves and our workplace by looking at chimps in the wild. Creationists will not agree with this article, but then again, I don’t agree with creationist so I’ll split the difference and post it anyway! From The Australian:
IF you occasionally walk into the office thinking “this place is run by chimpanzees”, you may well be right.
Humans do share traits with chimpanzees and, according to chimp scholar Jane Goodall, there is much the monkey can teach... Read Full Story
Seems we can learn quite a bit about ourselves and our workplace by looking at chimps in the wild. By knowing how they work, we can defend ourselves from the uprising! From The Australian:
IF you occasionally walk into the office thinking “this place is run by chimpanzees”, you may well be right.
Humans do share traits with chimpanzees and, according to chimp scholar Jane Goodall, there is much the monkey can teach the modern chief executive about his staff.
For example — see if this... Read Full Story
All that monkey chatter might be adding up to something. But is it good that we know what they are saying or bad that they can communicate better than we originally thought? From Science Daily:
What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? The findings, published this month in the Journal of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, indicate that bonobos may exhibit larger linguistic... Read Full Story
Punkeys are always looking for credibility. They usually convince myopic scientist into suggesting everything started with monkeys. Even our victory dances. From The Los Angeles Times:
Chimps do it. Gorillas do it. Michael Phelps does it too.
The exuberant dance of victory — arms thrust toward the sky and chest puffed out at a defeated opponent — turns out to be an instinctive trait of all primates — humans included, according to research released Monday.
Scientists from the University of... Read Full Story
Gye Greene once compared the cognitive development of his kid to that of their Corgi dog. This struck me as a more useful tool than a calendar for measuring someone's age. That is, instead of wishing someone a happy birthday on a specific (fairly meaningless) date, it seems to me that we should do so when we notice a particular improvement in their intellectual capabilities. And when someone asks us how old we are, we simply respond with something to the effect of, "I'm smarter than a... Read Full Story
