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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (23518)	10/5/2007 3:18:34 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217619

It has taken 100,000 years to upgrade humans to the current pathetic level. I would argue that most of that progress has to do with learning from others who already know what you need to know, or can benefit from learning. Nurture, not nature. It can't be good for a culture to kill off or run off all its educated people, and then have to start from scratch. I am reminded of the story of the Japanese macaque, Imo, who learned how to wash sweet potatoes and clean wheat, and then all the other macaques learned from her. >>Potato washing by a troop in Koshima was first started by a one and a half year old female named Imo. Researchers would put sweet potatoes along the beach to bring the monkeys out in the open. Imo found that she could get the sand off the potato better by dipping it into the river water, rather than brushing it off with her hands, like the other monkeys were doing. Her brothers and sisters imitated her first and then their mother. Over time the entire troop took to washing sand off potatoes with river water. At first they simply washed the sand off, but Imo soon found that the potatoes tasted better if seasoned with salt water from the ocean. They began to bite into the potato then dip it into the sea water to season it and bite again. Imo was a bit of a genius for a monkey because she also discovered wheat washing. She would make a ball of wheat and sand and throw it into the water. The wheat would float up to the top where she could pick it up and eat it without the sand.<< blueplanetbiomes.org