Chimpanzees Choose Cooperation Over Competition
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 - 11:21
in Psychology & Sociology
When given a choice between cooperating or competing, chimpanzees choose to cooperate five times more frequently Yerkes National Primate Research Center researchers have found. This, the researchers say, challenges the perceptions humans are unique in our ability to cooperate and chimpanzees are overly competitive, and suggests the roots of human cooperation are shared with other […]