Category: primate empathy

This is sort of creepy, evoking slightly images from that recent movie I didn't see but I saw the trailers: Rise of the Planet of the Apes. You know, virus-vectored, genetically altered chimps and gorillas planning a takeover. Its imagery of primate skullduggery came to mind while reading on the AP Seth Borenstein's review of recent research on the differences and similarities between how people and apes think. It covers such fundamentals as ability to consider themselves as individuals and to empathize or somehow recognize similar volitional intellects...