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Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter, NY Times
 









Excerpts:     From top, Estuko Nogami/Kyoto University; Tetsuro Matsuzawa;
Michael K. Nichols/National Geographic; Estuko Nogami/Kyoto University From the
top, Ayumu, a 6-year-old male, shows foresight in stacking blocks; chimps can
outperform humans at some memory tasks; they use simple tools like twigs to dig
out ants and termites, and rocks to crack open nuts.      For example, chimps on
their own would not sit at a computer responding with rapid touches on the
screen as a test of their immediate memory. Videos of their doing just that at
Kyoto University in Japan especially impressed the symposium scientists. 
Tetsuro Matsuzawa, a Kyoto primatologist, described a young chimp watching as
numbers 1 through 9 flashed on the computer screen at random positions. Then the
numbers disappeared in no more than a second.
Source: Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter[
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/science/17chimp.html?ref=science ], John Noble
Wilford, NYTimes, 07/04/17

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