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| Science & Technology |
| After scientists taught monkeys the concept of money, the first prostitute monkey appeared |
| 2012-02-25 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 Uh, uh, YOU ONLY WANT ME FOR MY BANANAS! gut nuthin. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-25 21:34 |
| #4 I can imagine the monkeys next developing the concepts of mercantilism and employment, as well as organized crime. I think they already proved that monkeys have a similar response to slot machines. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-25 16:33 |
| #3 "But the monkeys did demonstrate better money-handling skills compared to politicians," Chen added softly. Meaning he's still to teach them the idea of "others' money" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-02-25 15:44 |
| #2 "But the monkeys did demonstrate better money-handling skills compared to politicians," Chen added softly. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-02-25 14:44 |
| #1 Correction: first there was the bank heist. THEN the prostitution. They then taught them how to gamble, and saw they made the same irrational decisions a human gambler would make as well. The data generated by the capuchin monkeys, Chen says, ”make them statistically indistinguishable from most stock-market investors.” |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2012-02-25 14:03 |