Intelligence test for Chimpanzees: Smart parents, smart kids

What is true for humans, also appears to apply to the next of kin: Intelligence is also in chimpanzees largely hereditary - what experiments with animals.

Is intelligence hereditary or not, and the role of environment and upbringing? Furthermore, researchers were arguing for years. Meanwhile go professionals assume that a mixture of all factors is true: The IQ is therefore hereditary, but can be changed by non-genetic influences. What is true for humans, also seems to apply to our closest relatives: Even among chimpanzees, the intelligence largely inherited.


About half of the individual intelligence differences between individual chimpanzees is, according to U.S. researchers back to genetic differences. Environmental influences played for the development of intelligence apparently a smaller role than previously thought, write William Hopkins and his staff from the Georgia State University in the journal "Current Biology".

Intelligence test for chimpanzees

You now undergo a total of 99 chimpanzees 9-54 years an intelligence test in which the animals had to solve 13 different tasks. The researchers then compared the degree of relationship of the animals and their performance in the various tasks. Some of the primates was raised by humans, some in captivity of their mothers. Some of the older animals were still caught in the wild and brought to the United States before 1974.

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