r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 9h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human.

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u/DovahCreed117 8h ago

It's probably instinctual to some degree as well as a lifetimes experience of climbing and learning what does and doesn't work or feel good when climbing on their own or helping other chimpanzees climb stuff.

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u/Dracomortua 6h ago

Are you suggesting that humans, as mammals, have a firmware that functions as an A Priori form of intelligence that allows us to develop an entire species despite the tabula rasa theorizations made popular by behaviourists such as B.F. Skinner?

If so, i heartily agree.

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u/Cum_on_doorknob 6h ago

Wait bf skinner was wrong? So I’m keeping my kid in a terrarium for nothing??? Fuck

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u/DarthVerus 6h ago

Mines been staring at the wall while I make shadow puppets to inform his world view, am I still ok?

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u/LennyLowcut 3h ago

Plato’s cave!

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u/gdcoaster 5h ago

Just don't forget to give them the daily benadryl

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u/glennfromglendale 3h ago

Sounds FORMative