Human infants cognitive skills shaped by our primate ancestry
A new study has investigated ways in which our cognitive skills as humans have been shaped by our primate ancestry - new findings show that human infants display the same preferences as all the other great apes in their strategies for remembering where things are, but apparently these preferences shift as humans develop.
The study found that “this change in cognitive preference indicates a uniquely human developmental trajectory when compared to the cognitive development of other great apes, and it informs our general understanding of which aspects of our cognitive development have evolved within the human lineage”.
The study compared humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans in terms of remembering where things are …