I guess it’s pretty well known, evolutionary theory being what it is, that humankind is closely related to the Chimpanzee. In addition to physical likeness the species share complex cultural structures, emotional being, technologies of tool use and that’s not to mention nearly identical genomes.
Anyway, I was reading the Natural News the other day and came across an article that suggested our Simian cousins prove to be smarter than the average high school student. According to the article ape intelligence is a bundling of skills related to learning, tool usage, understanding of quantities and ability to reach conclusions based on evidence and reasoning, whereas high school students largely run their lives based on drama, jealousy, sex and emotional reactions to simple stimuli such as corporate logos on basketball shoes.
Further, the article states that, while Chimpanzees are acutely aware of their surroundings, humankind tends to diminish their awareness through alcohol and drug use which says something about which species has the greater capacity for survival. It kind of makes me wonder which species deserves the label troglodyte.
I’m thinking that maybe I should view Planet of the Apes again and perhaps take it more seriously.
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I think further investigation is obviously required to answer this one.
I suppose the Natural News article may be a bit tongue in cheek but there does seem to be some sense in it.
Well, if chimpanzees have any capacity for mathematics (i.e. understand numbers higher than about 3), they’re certainly smarter than I was at high school.
Actually, people with Rh negative blood have no genetic link to the primate family. However, that doesn’t mean that we don’t act like a bunch of monkeys ala monkey see, monkey do.
One has to wonder who or what the 15% of humans with Rh negative blood are related to.