Chimp controversy

Language in Child and Chimp?

Recent successes teaching chimpanzees to engage in symbolic communication have again brought into question the Cartesian supposition that language is uniquely possessed by homo sapiens. Despite the very remarkable achievements of Washoe and Sarah, an objective comparison of these chimps' linguistic performances with those of a typical 3-year-old child provides scant evidence for rejecting Desca...

CHIMP, the CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform

Anthony Stentz, Herman Herman, Alonzo Kelly, Eric Meyhofer, G. Clark Haynes, David Stager, Brian Zajac, J. Andrew Bagnell, Jordan Brindza, Christopher Dellin, Michael George, Jose Gonzalez-Mora, Sean Hyde, Morgan Jones, Michel Laverne, Maxim Likhachev, Levi Lister, Matt Powers, Oscar Ramos∗, Justin Ray, David Rice, Justin Scheifflee, Raumi Sidki†, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Kyle Strabala, Jean-Phili...

Alan Tseng Chimp Chunk Report(revision 1)

A chimp off the old block

A recent survey found that half of all Americans believe our species was not a product of evolution, but instead a direct creation of God (and Brits aren’t much different). So imagine how hard that half of the population swallowed after reading the latest reported twist in human evolution. Our relatives, it seems, were more than just kissin’ cousins, when it came to the early chimp line. As the...

Screening for prostate cancer: Controversy? What controversy?

for the absence of a reduction in mortality in the plco trial and in comparison with the difference seen in the erspc trial. The truth of the matter is the psa test should not be used at all in screening for prostate cancer in the manner it has heretofore been used. Prostate-specific antigen, discovered in 1970 5,6 , is a normal component of the prostate. It is not cancer-specific. Rather, it i...