Primate Economics!
May. 21st, 2009 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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a_priori mentioned Laurie Santos, who is researching how monkeys and lemurs think. I couldn't resist sharing with y'all this Popular Science article, which tells about her findings that the monkeys are often irrational (in an economic, decision-making sense) in the same way that we are.
a_priori mentioned Laurie Santos, who is researching how monkeys and lemurs think. I couldn't resist sharing with y'all this Popular Science article, which tells about her findings that the monkeys are often irrational (in an economic, decision-making sense) in the same way that we are.