Chimpanzees are spontaneously generous after all
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have shown chimpanzees have a significant bias for prosocial behavior. This, the study authors report, is in contrast to previous studies that positioned chimpanzees as reluctant altruists and led to the widely held belief that human altruism evolved in the last six million years only after humans split from apes.