A recent experiment found that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and will often step in to help a human out. Host Marco Werman spoke with Chris Krupenye, an evolutionary cognitive scientist at Johns Hopkins University, about his involvement in the study and what it tells us about the human-ape relationship.
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