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Brian Hare is not your typical college professor, or at least not who I expected to meet for this assignment. Hare is an assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, where he recently opened the Canine Cognition Center. The center is basically a room under heavy surveillance where Hare and his team of graduate students tests a dog’s instinctual response to a human gesture, specifically pointing. Dogs do surprisingly well with this cognitive test, chimpanzees, our closest extant relatives, do not. What does this say about the social evolution between dogs and humans?
view the slideshow at TIME.com
Prof. Hare is also a huge fan of Bonobos, the lesser known species of the genus pan, or chimpanzee, that solves all their conflicts through sex and exists in a matriarchal society. Wha?
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