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When Economics met Primatology…

Written By: The Homo Economicus on April 13, 2009 1 Comment

Another interesting study regarding Chimpanzees. Thanks to my friend Cesar for the link.

It is interesting to see that rationality and incentives have ruled the world way before money markets.

And for the male readers, here is the tip of today :) Check out the link:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/408/3

An application to real life, is this scene in Seinfeld:

GEORGE: Listen to this. Marcy comes up and she tells me her ex-boyfriend was over late last night, and “yada yada yada, I’m really tired today.” You don’t think she yada yada’d sex.
ELAINE:
(Raising hand) I’ve yada yada’d sex.
GEORGE: Really?
ELAINE: Yeah. I met this lawyer, we went out to dinner, I had the lobster bisk, we went back to my place, yada yada yada, I never heard from him again.
JERRY: But you yada yada’d over the best part.
ELAINE: No, I mentioned the bisk.

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One Response to “When Economics met Primatology…”

  1. Cesifoti on: 13 April 2009 at 8:27 pm

    I guess chimps already had dinner dates… it would be nice to see how far down the evolutionary tree this results would extend.. :-)

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