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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Hooton suggested the Society establish a central record bureau to place anthropological data forms in the hands of every member. He also got in a plug for one family of apes he has always respected--the chimp. "They're the closest to man--shove the chimpanzee in almost any situation among men and he wouldn't stick out--except perhaps favorably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Tells Dentists They Can Get Anthropology Data | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...Healy, the actor who adopted a chimpanzee and a pygmy "with a head like an inverted ice-cream cone" and would never explain the chimp other than by saying solemnly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabaret Philosopher | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

This low finance was as high as Trader got, but chimpanzees can master a subtler money economy. At Yale's Laboratories of Primate Biology, Dr. John Wolfe confronted six young and impressionable chimpanzees with a "chimp-o-mat," a slot machine which passed out a grape when fed a white poker chip. The chimps learned quickly how to operate the contraption. They also learned that poker chips were things of value, to be cherished and scuffled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monkeys with Money | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Then Dr. Wolfe showed his chimps the seamy side of money: work. He put in their quarters a "work-machine" with a heavy handle. When a chimp hoisted the handle, he got a poker chip (convertible into one grape). Some of the chimps went into a frenzy of work and accumulation, heaping up capital and guarding it savagely. One earned 185 power-chip coins in a single ten-minute session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monkeys with Money | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...When the chimps were thoroughly accustomed to working for money, Dr. Wolfe made the currency more complicated. Blue chips dropped into the chimp-o-mat yielded two grapes instead of one. A red chip was worth a drink of water. The chimps soon mastered this system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monkeys with Money | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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