Battlepanda: Two Apes

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Saturday, December 17, 2005

Two Apes

Scientists have found distinctive differences between the learning styles of humans and chimps. Whereas one species tend to learn through slavish monkey-see-monkey-do imitation of procedure, the other focuses their actions on achieving the goal at hand. Which ape is the ape? The answer might surprise you...