Povert

I drove into New Haven on a recent morning with a burning question on my mind. How did my daughter do against the chimpanzees?

Ok, aside from the funny opening, this is pretty interesting.

As human ancestors began to make complicated tools, figuring out goals might not have been good enough anymore. Hominids needed a way to register automatically what other hominids did, even if they didn’t understand the intentions behind them. They needed to imitate.

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