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09/11/2007: "Primates reveal different levels of boundary-based reasoning"

Researchers have found that when understanding behavior, primates assume rationality and make inferences based on environmental restraints. The researchers studied over 120 primates from the three
major groups of primates, and found the same responses among all three types.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070906140753.htm

Apes bite and try to break a tube to retrieve the food inside while children follow the experimenter's example to get inside the tube to retrieve the prize, showing that even before preschool, toddlers are
more sophisticated in their social learning skills than their closest primate relatives, according to a new report.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070906144113.htm

[ Intelligence is genetic. ]

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