Tim Cook wrote:
> Ooh, here's another good example of 'the media' not presenting the whole 
> story, skewing what people think of something:
> 
> http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,504423,00.html
> 
> has a quote markedly absent in most of the other 'wa ha, humans are 
> smarter than apes', namely "Human children are not overall more 
> intelligent than other primates," concluded the lead researcher, Esther 
> Herrmann of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 
> in Leipzig, "but instead have specialized skills of social cognition. 
> They learn in a way that chimpanzees don't learn."

It's been known since the sixties that human children and chimpanzee 
children are developmentally neck-and-neck, with the chimps having the 
lead in some areas.

Until they turn three.

At age three, the chimp stops developing mentally.  The human's just 
getting started.

Regards,
John

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