{"id":28731,"date":"2016-01-09T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28731"},"modified":"2016-01-05T18:46:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T23:46:58","slug":"qotd-humans-and-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/09\/qotd-humans-and-apes\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Humans and apes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On what separates us from the apes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Michael Tomasello, one of the world\u2019s foremost experts on chimpanzee cognition, [said] \u201cIt is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On what doesn\u2019t separate us from the apes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Acheulean tools [a style used by hominids 1.8 million years ago] are nearly identical everywhere, from Africa to Europe to Asia, for more than a million years. There\u2019s hardly any variation, which suggests that the knowledge of how to make these tools may not have been passed on culturally. Rather, the knowledge of how to make these tools may have become innate, just as the \u201cknowledge\u201d of how to build a dam is innate in beavers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jonathan Haidt, quoted by Scott Alexander in <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2014\/06\/12\/list-of-the-passages-i-highlighted-in-my-copy-of-jonathan-haidts-the-righteous-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;List Of The Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s <em>The Righteous Mind<\/em>&#8220;, <em>Slate Star Codex<\/em><\/a>, 2014-06-12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On what separates us from the apes: Michael Tomasello, one of the world\u2019s foremost experts on chimpanzee cognition, [said] \u201cIt is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.\u201d On what doesn\u2019t separate us from the apes: Acheulean tools [a style used by hominids 1.8 million years ago] are nearly identical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,16,487],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-28731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-science","category-tools","tag-anthropology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7tp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28732,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28731\/revisions\/28732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}