Unlike some news organizations, great apes think ahead
- Wednesday, June 18 2008 @ 11:51 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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So says Science Daily:
The complex skill of future planning is commonly believed to be exclusive to humans, and has not yet been convincingly established in any living primate species other than our own. In humans, planning for future needs relies heavily on two mental capacities: self-control or the suppression of immediate drives in favor of delayed rewards; and mental time travel or the detached mental experience of a past or future event.All right, I added the part about news organizations, but you get my meaning, I think . . .