Chimpanzee And Human Behaviour
This human behaviour comes naturally to us, but not to primates. Chimpanzees were more interested in the purpose of the object and what the object has to offer. They played around with the object to examine what worth it provides to them but ended up only using it as a source of entertainment. While the child is more focused on the other person, and what they can do to help or please them, to earn the approval from them. Primates rely on themselves and their parents to be able to function in their environment, utilizing and testing the objects around them to learn their purpose and what they have to offer to help them. They achieve a better understanding through trying and failing, so they know what they did wrong and can fix their errors in the future. I think this is what gives us our advantage over primates. Primates do learn from each other by copying what they see the other is doing and are very dependant from a young age just like us humans. But we are able to understand our emotions and the emotions of others by studying the expressions and body language from other human beings and use that to make rational