All This Is That: Monkey See, Monkey Do

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Monkey See, Monkey Do

According to the Public Library of Science - Biology, monkeys in infancy can imitate their parents facial expressions. This was previously only thought to happen in humans (and possibly apes and chimps). That gets a little bit too fine for some us. . .we're all cousins! Click here to read the research article in PLOS Biology...

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