Different in degree or kind: Chimp vs. kids (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, January 18, 2015, 13:40 (3597 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Not the same response to a study of cooperation: - http://www.pnas.org/content/112/2/299.extract
 
 "Chimpanzees, it turns out, do not share, unless the food reward is split equally into two piles (See Fig. 2). Otherwise, the dominant chimpanzee takes it all (2)."-The quote continues: "This is one example of differing social-cognitive skills—cooperative skills in this case—between humans and other animals. “And you can see that humans are adapted for that in a way other apes are not,” says Michael Tomasello, codirector of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who oversaw both experiments."-It really makes you wonder how other social organisms manage to survive, doesn't it? Only humans apparently know how to cooperate and to share.