Scientists form the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have tested adult chimpanzees and orangutans, and human 2 year olds with a series of cognitive tests to state their differences. The results where that in every area they are pretty much the same, except on their social skills abilities.
Probably the most important ability we have as a species is the ability to work together towards a common end, that’s how we’ve managed to gain and accumulate knowledge through out history. The transmission of this knowledge is facilitated by our way of communicating, while apes communicate to get something, we also share feelings and information.
This doesn’t mean that humans work together on good feelings. It actually means that we work fine when we have something that tells us apart from another group we have to protect ourselves from, leading to horrible consequences. Maybe the solution is the redefinition of those groups.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25wwln-essay-t.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1223956440-AB6mLKmxlbVzu1Z+hj5Abg
Probably the most important ability we have as a species is the ability to work together towards a common end, that’s how we’ve managed to gain and accumulate knowledge through out history. The transmission of this knowledge is facilitated by our way of communicating, while apes communicate to get something, we also share feelings and information.
This doesn’t mean that humans work together on good feelings. It actually means that we work fine when we have something that tells us apart from another group we have to protect ourselves from, leading to horrible consequences. Maybe the solution is the redefinition of those groups.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25wwln-essay-t.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1223956440-AB6mLKmxlbVzu1Z+hj5Abg
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