Sunday, October 14, 2007

Patience and fairness

While I struggle with my next post, I'd like to divert readers to this interesting article in the Economist. It explains recent experiments that try to show differences between apes and humans when it comes “patience” and “fairness” (the definition of fairness in the article is not as straightforward), and also, in the process, reveal the sequence of evolution and genetic underpinnings of these “virtues”.

2 comments:

Kartik said...

I have my doubts about the methods described in that article ...

Hari said...

I am not surprised at all. With studies like this there are sure to be some very gray areas. Any specific issues?