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Title: Chimp trounces the best of the human world in memory competition
Post by: Straw Man on January 30, 2008, 11:34:36 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510260&in_page_id=1770

When scientists found out that chimps had better memories than students, there were unkind comments about the calibre of the human competition they faced.

But now an ape has gone one better, trouncing British memory champion Ben Pridmore.

Ayumu, a seven-year-old male brought up in captivity in Japan, did three times as well as Mr Pridmore at a computer game which involved remembering the position of numbers on a screen.

And that's no mean feat - the 30-year-old accountant from Derby is capable of memorising the order of a shuffled pack of cards in under 30 seconds.
Title: Re: Chimp trounces the best of the human world in memory competition
Post by: 24KT on January 31, 2008, 07:18:14 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510260&in_page_id=1770

When scientists found out that chimps had better memories than students, there were unkind comments about the calibre of the human competition they faced.

But now an ape has gone one better, trouncing British memory champion Ben Pridmore.

Ayumu, a seven-year-old male brought up in captivity in Japan, did three times as well as Mr Pridmore at a computer game which involved remembering the position of numbers on a screen.

And that's no mean feat - the 30-year-old accountant from Derby is capable of memorising the order of a shuffled pack of cards in under 30 seconds.


Do you think this'll lessen the insult felt by creationists when evolutionists suggest we're descended from apes.  :D
Title: Re: Chimp trounces the best of the human world in memory competition
Post by: Straw Man on January 31, 2008, 02:02:26 PM
Do you think this'll lessen the insult felt by creationists when evolutionists suggest we're descended from apes.  :D

I doubt it