Cooking up cognition: Study suggests chimps have cognitive capacity for cooking
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 02:20
in Psychology & Sociology
These days, cooking dinner requires no more thought than turning a knob on a stovetop, but for early humans the notion that - simply by applying heat or fire - foods could be transformed into something both tastier and easier to digest demanded huge cognitive insight - insights often believed to be limited to humans.