Comments on: Baby Chimps Given Love Are Smarter Than Human Babies

By: Morris

Morris — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:09:47 +0000

This article is silly.
Their thesis is that human contact helps IQ’s of both chimps and humans. That seems fine.

Then they test baby chimps. One group gets human attention the other none, just the necessisites of life such as food.

So, their conclusion should be chimps in the wild do not develop as fast as chimps with human contact. If they want to draw the conclusion that humans should develope better too, I think that is fine, but what does the study have to do with comparing the intelligence of humans to chimps? Wild chimps will score better than humans the first year too.

By: Anke Wehner

Anke Wehner — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:25:58 +0000

Given that they reach sexual maturity at age 7-9, it’s not really suprising that they develop faster…

By: darlzwik

darlzwik — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:33:46 +0000

give them massive doses of sugar, T.V., and bottle feed them, and then they will develop as slowly as our children.

Check out the book “The Magical Child” by Joseph Chilton Pearce.

By: just a guy

just a guy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:33:04 +0000

I thought it was kind of common knowledge that human babies develop (mentally and physically) a lot slower than other animals.