Chimps Have a Built-In GPS

destinyland writes "European researchers have discovered that chimpanzees have a built-in mental GPS, keeping 'a geometric mental map of their home range, moving from point to point in nearly straight lines.' Using GPS, two primatologists followed 15 chimpanzees for 217 days, and determined that the apes were 'using a mental map built around geometric coordinates.' They're not just identifying landmarks in their surroundings, and in fact, even when swinging through trees, the chimps planned out their route several trees in advance. Here's the paper in the journal Animal Behavior."

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[MrMilledge]

Your 'paradox' isn't caused by evolution, rather by your Judaeo-Christian belief that Humans are the be all and end all of creation. Even other faiths do not rely so heavily on these superiority-inferiority complexes.