Monkey math: Zoo baboons shed light on the brain's ability to understand numbers
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: it's hard to miss the similarities between apes and humans. Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious trait—the ability to understand numbers—also is shared by man and his primate cousins.