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And mouse, rat, cat, primate, human - ask him where he took that from?

It's not about the screen or the computer; it's about the primate sitting in front of it.

Said primate could potentially avert its own extinction, is I think the point of this article.

Exerting primate dominance over others in the so very many varied ways that humans are capable of is so much more fun.

He didn't even encourage the primate - his greatest contribution was not interfering.

[It's true, the latest studies about caloric restriction indicate that it doesn't seem to work in primates, even after a 25-year study]Quibbling.

The conclusion from the primate studies is really stacking up to be a common sense "eat in moderation, healthy, and you'll live at least a little longer, maybe a lot".

Dunbar arrives at the magical 150 by extrapolating from the neocortex ratio to mean group size correlation of nonhuman primates.

The feelings we get making and spending money, and the feelings we get comparing our ability to do that to other people, satisfies a deep biological need in our primate selves.

And who knows where further research into something like that might go; at the very least learning more about primate biochemistry is a good way to figure out potential new treatments for human diseases.

Who we are as humans is inextricably tied to our mammalian, primate, vertebrate and multicellular ancestry, and we know this by virtue of the wonders of phylogenetics.

Despite all the gender discussions, equal rights movements, sexist-calling and so forth, we won’t refute biology just by force of will and most of our society is based on certain ‘agreements’ to keep basic primate instincts under control.

To the point that they actually rank above primates in certain tests of cognition and social behaviour - notably the two behaviours that are attributed as key elements of human evolution to sentience.

You mean most calculus homework isn't done at frat keggers?The root of the problem is a management primate dominance fad; the mere grunt laborers beneath me don't think; I'm of a superior social class who can think; therefore who cares if the losers can't think.

On the other hand....95% of the effort that goes into Wikipedia may be nothing more than primate status games among insiders, but those games motivate an extremely large number of people, and because so many people do get involved, the actually-useful work is 5% of a very large number.