Dumb Humans

Ready to get knocked off your high horse of human "superiority"? Watch this video and see that we are stupid compared to chimpanzees:



The saving grace for humans: since we are willing to copy, we have the essential tool for cultural learning. Chimps are too smart by half. They go for the reward and can't be bothered by the rigamarole of ritual and copying. So they don't build up cultural learning. They want the fast route to success which really means that their learning has to remain primitive.

Fascinating.