Susan Savage-Rumbaugh shows that language, complex tasks, and other intelligent behaviour. She has tought bonobo apes. This contradicts VS Ramachandran's claim in "VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization" that humans 100.000 years ago devellopped 'mirror neurons' which led to culture. (The bonobo species probablely orginated 1.5-2.0 mln. years ago, when the Congo river separates them from their chimpansee cousins.) by kaspervandenbergNov 5
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh shows that language, complex tasks, and other intelligent behaviour. She has tought bonobo apes. This contradicts VS Ramachandran's claim in "VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization" that humans 100.000 years ago devellopped 'mirror neurons' which led to culture. (The bonobo species probablely orginated 1.5-2.0 mln. years ago, when the Congo river separates them from their chimpansee cousins.) by kaspervandenberg Nov 5