A guy at Yale (who has a much more interesting job than I) trained monkeys to understand the concept of money. The results are interesting. It's worth reading the entire article, but I'll just jump right to the conclusion...
But these facts remain: When taught to use money, a group of capuchin monkeys responded quite rationally to simple incentives; responded irrationally to risky gambles; failed to save; stole when they could; used money for food and, on occasion, sex. In other words, they behaved a good bit like the creature that most of Chen's more traditional colleagues study: Homo sapiens.
And the fundi's claim humans and monkeys don't have common ancestors.
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Well, that's true.. I'll rephrase it..
HOLY CRAP! That pic looks like a co-worker of mine.
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