Who Are More Helpful, Humans or Chimpanzees?
- 3 March 2006
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 311 (5765) , 1248-1249
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1125141
Abstract
Humans, including infants, are more willing than closely-related chimpanzees to cooperate and behave altruistically and cooperatively, probably in part accounting for their evolutionary success.Keywords
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