All It Takes Is Love: Baby Chimps Given Extra TLC Score Higher Than Human Infants on IQ Tests
We kid you not: Orphaned baby chimpanzees cared for by humans in a loving, attentive manner have been found to be more cognitively advanced than some human infants.Authors of a new study in Developmental Psychobiology compared nine-month-old human babies to nine-month-old chimps who had received daily “mom sessions.” For 20 hours a week, humans would play with 17 of the orphaned infant chimps, helping them to develop motor skills and to “meet new challenges with curiosity instead of distress.”
Is anybody really surprised? [Apologies to anyone stuck with the Beatles tune "All You Need is Love" in their head now.]
2 comments:
It's not a big surprise.
When i read the headline, i believed that it was an eulogy for the beatles and one of their greatest hits...
Ok, that has no report with bioéthics. But this tune...!
Yep!
This is potentially misleading - what is the developmental age of a 9 month old chimp v. a 9 month old human?
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