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13 - Making Your Way in the Great Wild World

Chimpanzee Senses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2020

Kevin D. Hunt
Kevin D. Hunt
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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If we could transplant your brain into the skull of a chimpanzee so as to allow you to experience the world through their sensory system, you would see things … just as you do now. Chimpanzee and human senses are so similar that your vision, touch, taste, smell, and hearing would be so little different you would hardly notice. As unalike as our bodies appear at first sight, the data the chimpanzee body sends to the brain are virtually identical to ours.

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Chimpanzee
Lessons from our Sister Species
 , pp. 242 - 251
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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