[xmca] http://science.discovery.com/videos/mutant-planet-evolution-japan/

["Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@uga.edu>]

http://science.discovery.com/videos/mutant-planet-evolution-japan/

Change in topic: The Science channel has a terrific series, Mutant Planet,
that looks at evolutionary adaptations in unique locations. Their show on
Japan features primates who appear to be involved in the intelligent
direction of their own evolution, to the extent that the narrator refers to
their adaptations as cultural. This clip shows one such adaptation, but
there are others, with culture invoked as the center of the activity. This
is the most advanced primate behavior I'm aware of, and refutes a lot of the
assertions made by LSV and others in the 1920s about human/primate
distinctions. Fascinating stuff.

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