Language Log writes about the first time monkeys exchanged money for sex. Blog antecedents include this post from SavageMinds. SavageMinds pulls the following quote (now behind the NYT firewall)…
When taught to use money, a group of capuchin monkeys
responded quite rationally to simple incentives; responded irrationally
to risky gambles; failed to save; stole when they could; used money for
food and, on occasion, sex. In other words, they behaved a good bit
like the creature that most of Chen’s more traditional colleagues
study: Homo sapiens.
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