What skills are distinctly human?

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany compared the abilities and skills of chimps, orangutans and two year old humans. They found that human children were better at social learning. Find out more here: http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2007/09/chimps-help-define...

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[ferrariModenas]

monkeys don't kill other monkeys in the name of religion

[biancalovecraft]

your -->you're

smarting --> hahahaha

im --> I'm

Enough said. Can you dress yourself?

[OnceUponATimmyy]

240p yet we meet again

[dannielpreto]

They weren't equally as good, I saw a child fail on the first exercise.

[footballUSAcowboys]

@ferrariModenas yeah they do it in the name of food lol

[ILikeGirlsWthBigEyes]

@cliffracerslayer Yep. I bet if you pitted adult humans against adult chimps in these tests, the humans would win HANDS DOWN!!!

[mylvl200wizardpwnsjk]

i kinda want some bananas now...

[cliffracerslayer]

That's not fair! They are pitting adult chimps against 2 year old children!

[monkeytwineball]

I'd actually believe that... it would account for the size of our brains, all animals with large brains have aquatic ancestry, even elephants.

I think the real difference though, is rhythm. Chimps have no rhythm, I think that eventually led to art.

[Omega3chimp]

You got to feed chimps more omega 3,that's the deference between people and apes we started to eat fish and seafood witch made us smart. test were proven.

[furQ]

The conclusion was a bit abrupt, and doesn't really fit with what was in the rest of the video. Unless I missed something :o

[dodgedart74]

hey can i join this fight too? i got nothing else to do today