Thursday, May 18, 2006

Another Blow to the Human Ego: Monkeys Use "Sentences"

Nicholaus Copernicus: The earth is not the center of the universe (1514)

Charles Darwin: "Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." (1871)

Sigmund Freud: "Free will" is a delusion (1900)

Klaus Zuberbühler (psychology researcher at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland): "These (Putty-nosed) monkey 'sentences' appear to be evidence of what is widely considered to be a uniquely human ability: stringing words together to convey a message, or syntax." (2006) /National Geographic/

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