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Unlike humans chimpanzees do not show a willingness to make fair offers and reject unfair ones
Anthropology Posted by News Lynx on Friday October 05, @09:54AM
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New research from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany shows that unlike humans, chimpanzees conform to traditional economic models. The research, conducted by Keith Jensen, Josep Call and Michael Tomasello, used a modification of one of the most widely used and accepted economic tools, the ultimatum game (Science, October 5, 2007). http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/m-fpi100507.php




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    Re: Unlike humans chimpanzees do not show a willingness to make fair offers and reject unfair ones
    by CBWiser on Tuesday October 09, @06:36AM

    There are human societies which have no concept of numbers higher than one (or two?) and the passage of time. (Portrayed on "60 Minutes".) What if chimps are the same way, so that they have no conception of what are the differences between the trays? Wouldn't that negate the conclusions of the study?
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