Folk Physics for Apes
by Daniel J. Povinelli
Chimpanzees rely on trial and error for the development of crude tools because they lack an abstract understanding of cause and effect possessed by any human child.
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“What Povinelli looks at is that humans as distinct from animals have a set of causal beliefs about the physical world. Animals don’t have a concept of cause and effect.” Read more...
Lewis Wolpert, Biologist
