Re: [xmca] latest challenge to human/primate gap

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

And for "newly discovered" changes in definition of
"transition to adulthood" see today's new york times
crinkle crinkle
mike

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> * Until recently, researchers were certain that at least one ability
> separated humans from higher-functioning apes:  the creation and use of
> tools for sex.  However, primatologists writing in a recent issue of
> Science
> described a male chimpanzee's repetitive use of a dried leaf in the same
> way
> that a male human of a certain class might employ a fast car.  In the
> presence of a female chimp, the male carefully crinkles the leaf until
> she--seemingly accustomed to such leaf-crinkling--notices the male, along
> with his generous erection, and may then choose to join him. [New York
> Times, 5-4- 10]
>
>
>
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