Taxacom: systematics bias once again

[John Grehan]

In a recent press release titled "Temptation to Open Pandora's Box Could
Set Us Apart From Other Apes"

it was stated:

Compared to apes, human children are more likely to open a mystery 'box'
over one with known contents, a new study finds. This suggests that one
thing that makes us unique as a species might be our innate sense of
curiosity.

Children "explored the uncertain options before the alternatives were
presented, showing a higher degree of curiosity than the great apes,"
psychologist Alejandro Sánchez-Amaro from the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and cognitive scientist Federico
Rossano from the University of California San Diego write in their
published paper.

Groups of 15 to 29 captive apes – a mix of chimps, gorillas, and bonobos –
were tested using opaque and transparent upside-down cups containing juicy
grape treats.

There you have the obfuscation. The 'science' result was not about apes,
but just African Great Apes. Never mind the orangutan which is in some
respects smarter than African apes. All that can be said from the science
is that in this experiment, human children are more likely to open a
mystery box than African apes.Otherwise there is not much cognition going
on, on the part of the researchers at least :)

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