Friday, January 27, 2012

Chimpanzee's behavior

Resource: http://www.macroevolution.net/chimpanzees-behavior.html Summary: A lady named Pruetz has done a little research on how chimpanzee's interact with eachother. She came up with, chimpanzee's are good sharers, they share meat, tools, honey and a lot of other things. Though what she also realized is that the males usually share with the females, so she came up with the "food for sex" theory. Another thing that Pruetz came up with was the fact that humans might have learned how to share from the chimpanzee's. "There are aspects of human behavior, and I think that's interesting because it's not exactly the same, but it may give you an idea of how it [sharing among early humans] started," Pruetz said. "It's at least one scenario and how it could have come about in our own lineage." Critique: This article was very good, I just wish that it could have been longer and explained a little more about how chimpanzee's could have been the ones to show humans how to share or other taught us other things. Impact: The impact that this article has isn't really all that big, but it could be big because if humans did first learn traits from chimpanzee's there could be a big debate for religous reasons.

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