Hacker News with Generative AI: Primates

Bonobos recognize when humans are ignorant, try to help (arstechnica.com)
A lot of human society requires what's called a "theory of mind"—the ability to infer the mental state of another person and adjust our actions based on what we expect they know and are thinking.

Animal Behavior, Psychology, Primates

3 points by LinuxBender 18 days ago | 0 comments

Chimpanzees' stone tool choices may mirror ancient human ancestors' techniques (phys.org)
An international team of paleobiologists, anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern chimps to select tools for cracking nuts may be similar to how ancient human ancestors chose their tools.

Chimpanzees, Archaeology, Primates, Tool Use, Ancient Humans

35 points by pseudolus 48 days ago | 22 comments

The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-Up Primate Brain (nlm.nih.gov)
The human brain has often been viewed as outstanding among mammalian brains: the most cognitively able, the largest-than-expected from body size, endowed with an overdeveloped cerebral cortex that represents over 80% of brain mass, and purportedly containing 100 billion neurons and 10× more glial cells.

Neuroscience, Biology, Human Brain, Evolution, Primates

8 points by robertclaus 151 days ago | 0 comments

Marmoset Monkeys Use Unique Calls to Name Each Other (neurosciencenews.com)

Animal Behavior, Communication, Primates

5 points by yyyk 173 days ago | 0 comments

Marmosets use specific 'names' for one another, study finds (theguardian.com)

Animal Behavior, Primates, Research, Communication

8 points by hackernj 176 days ago | 0 comments