An experiment right out of Ripley's "Believe it or not" has proven that young chimps outperform college students on a test of short-term numeric memory.
Here's a quote from a story about an experiment testing the ability to remember numeric sequences briefly flashed onto squares on a computer screen at Kyoto University in Japan:
"I just watched the video of that and I can tell you right now, there's no way I can do it," she said. "It's unbelievable. I can't even get the first two (squares)."
What's going on here? Even with six months of training, three students failed to catch up to the three young chimps, Matsuzawa said in an e-mail.
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and you guys are still firing teachers for teaching evolution? I happen to believe that children should not be corrupted with silly creationist ideas. but have your say here: http://www.pollsb.com/polls/poll/4270/56-year-old-texas-science-educator-fired-because-she-refused-to-be-neutral-in-debate-about-evolution join the debate: evolution vs creationism
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