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The Cognitive Tests in Which Humans Lose to Chimpanzees
Though humans share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees, we regularly shrug off the biological similarity with a haughty air of superiority, confident that our cognitive abilities — endowed by a brain three times larger, with 14 billion more neurons — firmly trounce theirs.
We shouldn’t be so sure.
True, chimpanzees have yet to master flight, manufacture semiconductors, or cure a disease, but there are a number of basic cognitive tasks where, in a battle between human and ape, they come out on top…
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2023/03/04/the_cognitive_tests_in_which_humans_lose_to_chimpanzees_885292.html
