mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 22 2007 | news, chimps, ethics, morality, evolution, science
Interesting. It *appears* that dogs console others as well...but no mention in the article.
Quoted: Dr. Frans de Waal argues that human morality would be impossible without certain emotional building blocks that are clearly at work in chimp and monkey societies.
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To console another, Dr. de Waal argues, requires empathy and a level of self-awareness that only apes and humans seem to possess. And consideration of empathy quickly led him to explore the conditions for morality.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2007 | science, news, chimps, evolution
Quoted: Bakewell, Zhang and a colleague found that substantially more genes in chimps evolved in ways that were beneficial than was the case with human genes.
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The results could be due to the fact that over the long term humans have had a smaller effective population size compared with chimps.
- akabagel - Mar 22 2007
You must be Mohit's friend before you can comment on this Fave.If you find this topic interesting, I recommend 'The Origins of Virtue' by Matt Ridley
http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Virtue-Instincts-Evolution-Cooperation/dp/0140264450/ref=sr_1_1/104-8920643-0261529?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174580349&sr=8-1
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