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This project examines cognitive differences between humans and other primates, focusing on causal reasoning and executive functions. It aims to understand how these cognitive skills interact and contribute to the development of inquiring minds.
Human technology is vastly superior to that of other apes: human tools from telescopes to the Large Hadron Collider exploit causal relationships but also explore them.
What change over the brief course of hominid evolution made for such a big difference?
One theory implicates a single cognitive distinction: the ability to reinterpret the world in abstract terms.
In contrast, in several studies, chimpanzees seemed to rely on surface appearances, as if for the apes there was no more to the situati…
THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
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