Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Confirmation Of Apes' Sense Of Fairness Provides Another Close Link To Humans

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, are the first to show chimpanzees possess a sense of fairness that has previously been attributed as uniquely human. Working with colleagues from Georgia State University, the researchers played the Ultimatum Game with the chimpanzees to determine how sensitive the animals are to the reward distribution between two individuals if both need to agree on the outcome... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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