Re: Speciation - how do you know?

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Phillip Bigelow <bh162@scn.org> wrote in article <326AD3A4.E34@scn.org>...
> Any wild primate (lemurs on up) can learn to wash their food if an
> exposed water supply is available. Just like raccoons (and raccoons
> have a proportionally smaller brain than do most primates!). The
> "semi-wild" primates of Japan (and other parts of S.E. Asia)
> habitually throw dirty rice into the surf to clean and sort
> the rice. (And these primates aren't even as smart as great apes!).

Are you sure Phillip? I can only recall the Rhesus monkey of Japan
described re. this behaviour. And interestingly this was not common sense
or instinctive to them generally. One monkey (I forget her name) worked out
the process of cleaning rice, probably by accident, and the rest copied
her. This procedure soon spread and became part of their monkey culture.

Regards,

Roh

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