Tag: barter
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Why don’t chimpanzees like to barter commodities?
EurekAlert: Why don't chimpanzees like to barter commodities? (HT: Free Exchange) This study (published in PLoS ONE on January 30) is the first to examine the circumstances under which chimpanzees, our closest relatives, will exchange one inherently valuable commodity (an apple slice) for another (a grape), which is what early humans must have somehow learned…