The reason chimps can reason, and more…

Quirks and Quarks

We may share a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but somewhere along the evolutionary line to us, our brains took a major detour. New research suggests that chimpanzees can rationally weigh evidence, a trait that used to be thought as uniquely human.


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2026-01-16 54 min

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