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<div><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-style: italic;">by Patrick Appel</span></span></div>
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<div>Vanessa Woods and Brian Hare have <a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/woods_hare09/woods_hare09_index.html">a fascinating article</a> on our closest relatives. A taste:</div>
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<p>[C]ooperation in chimpanzees is highly constrained. Chimpanzees will cooperate only with familiar group members, with whom they normally share food. If they don&#39;t know or like a potential partner, they won&#39;t cooperate no matter how much food is at stake. Humans, however, make a living collaborating, even when it&#39;s with people they don&#39;t know and in many cases don&#39;t particularly like. (Do you have a boss?) This high level of social tolerance is likely one of the building blocks of the unique forms of cooperation seen in humans.&#0160;So perhaps a lack of tolerance is one of the main constraints on chimpanzees&#39; developing more flexible cooperative skills.</p>
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