Thank you, Professor Obvious

Make more-work for European scientists sucking at the public teat: two-year-old humans are smarter than chimps and orangutans.

Glad to see that European anthropologists and social scientists are tackling such important scientific issues instead of irrelevancies such as how to integrate diverse cultures into European society, how to improve education, or how to reduce poverty.

Shock: kids smarter than chimps
News.com Australia

IN another case of researchers reporting the bleeding obvious, European scientists have found that children are smarter than chimpanzees.

A unique study comparing the abilities of human toddlers to chimpanzees and orang-utans found that two-year-old children have social learning skills superior to the apes, the researchers said.

In one social learning test, a researcher showed the children and apes how to pop open a plastic tube to get food or a toy contained inside. The children observed and imitated the solution.

Chimpanzees and orang-utans, however, tried to smash open the tube or yank out the contests with their teeth.