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Poop-throwing chimps: Just so you know your tax funds are never wasted

Denyse O'Leary
October 19, 2014
Human evolution, News
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From The Daily Mail:

The same group of scientists determined, at a cost of $592,000 for NIH, that chimps with the best poop-throwing skills are also the best communicators. But while flinging feces might get another primate’s attention in the wild, they discovered, it’s not much good in captivity.

‘I’ve never in my life seen a chimp be given a banana for throwing s**t at someone,’ Emory University psychologist Bill Hopkins told Wired magazine.

Some believe that this behaviour helps account for the human mind, so that is why they think it important to study.

See also: Human origins: The war of trivial explanations

and The Science Fictions series at your fingertips (human evolution)

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Glad to know our tax funds are well invested in important scientific research that could bring us many benefits in the years to come. Anyway, I don't have a clue how to do it better than they did.Dionisio
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actually, 'throwing s**t' would be an apt description of how militant atheists defend Neo-Darwinism,,, :) Along that line,,
Monkey Theory Proven Wrong: Excerpt: A group of faculty and students in the university’s media program left a computer in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo in southwest England, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques. Then, they waited. At first, said researcher Mike Phillips, “the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it. “Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard,” added Phillips, who runs the university’s Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies. Eventually, monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in — not quite literature. http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/monkeysandtypewriters051103.htm
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‘I’ve never in my life seen a chimp be given a banana for throwing s**t at someone,’ Emory University psychologist Bill Hopkins told Wired magazine.
Has he ever seen the stir in the evolution community when a throwing chimp's s**t hits a fan? To them it is irrefutable proof that evolution is true and they bow down and worship their ancestor.awstar
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