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21 12 05 12:11News flash: Chimps are better at independant thinking than humans
A major news organization (that likes to hold people up for a subscription to read ridiculously basic and thin web news reports worthy of a high school flyer) reported on a study that found chimpanzees seem to exhibit a better understanding of cause and effect than human children. The study found while training chimps to perform a routine task with redundant steps, the chimps were able to figure out and eliminate the redundant steps, while the human children routinely performed them despite their evident uselessness.
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