A snake in the Garden of Eden...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/magazine/05FREAK.html
Another VERY interesting article in todays NYT
A behavioral economist at Yale has performed experiments in which he introduced monkeys to the concept of money, by given them tokens which they can exchange for various kinds of food at different costs..
The monkeys spent their money in accordance to their preference and responded rationally to changes in price, buying more of one good when the price was lowered and less of another when the price rose. There were also instances of monkey theft and robbery and even cases of monkey prostitution..
Reading about these monkeys is both funny and somehow sinister. It reminded me of the opening scene in Kubricks 2001 when the ape discovers that a stick can be used a weapon after exposure to the monolith.
Another VERY interesting article in todays NYT
A behavioral economist at Yale has performed experiments in which he introduced monkeys to the concept of money, by given them tokens which they can exchange for various kinds of food at different costs..
The monkeys spent their money in accordance to their preference and responded rationally to changes in price, buying more of one good when the price was lowered and less of another when the price rose. There were also instances of monkey theft and robbery and even cases of monkey prostitution..
Reading about these monkeys is both funny and somehow sinister. It reminded me of the opening scene in Kubricks 2001 when the ape discovers that a stick can be used a weapon after exposure to the monolith.
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