And we thought we are the only species that can use our mind to imagine and plan for our future? Not any more gentlemen!
Studies supported by evidence have indicated that great apes too can exercise their mental skill and act like humans.
Two Swedish scientists have published articles on their study of apes who have exercised self control, which means the suppression of immediate drives in favour of delayed rewards; and mental time travel, which means the detached mental experience of a past or future event -- facilitate planning for future needs in humans.
What does this imply? So much before humans, the mental capacities that we believed to be exclusive human skill evolved much earlier.
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2 comments:
That's awesome....
It's crazy that they can actually look forward to the future. That defies everything that I thought about them...
Apes can do so many things then many other animal. They are really so close to human.
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