According to reports, in a college in Guizhou recently, 2 monkeys broke into a girl's dormitory, not only ate the fruit and milk, bread and other foods on the table, but also took away roses and cold medicines on the side when they were ready to leave.
I have to say, this is really too surprising? Do monkeys also know that they are unwell and need to take medicine? Or are they evolving into adults?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="3" How smart are > monkeys? </h1>
The study found that the IQ of monkeys is equivalent to that of human children aged 3-4 years, and the IQ of monkeys of some species can even be equivalent to that of human children aged 8-10 years, which shows that they are very intelligent.
For example, in the United Kingdom, researchers went to Bali, Indonesia, to study local monkeys, and found that these monkeys even know how to "barter", that is, they will identify the most valuable things in the hands of tourists on the island, and then steal them when tourists are not ready.
After that, they will go to the tourist's side to show off, and tell the tourist through gestures that if they want to exchange their belongings, they need to provide food for themselves, and when they successfully obtain food, they will return the stolen items to the tourists themselves.
For this behavior, the British researchers said that this means that in the environment of coexistence with humans, due to long-term contact with humans, these monkeys with high IQs are also evolving, so that they have learned "unprecedented economic decisions".
From the perspective of genetic similarity, in monkeys, and human DNA most similar macaques, they and human genetic similarity reached 93%, which also makes macaques become one of the most intelligent species of monkeys, some time ago in India, there have also been macaques with bricks to kill passers-by, and this macaque deliberately hurt people, every year will occur in India a lot, which also makes people suspect that they may be accelerating evolution.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" >, will monkeys evolve into adults? </h1>
Let's start with a very interesting experiment. We all know that humans evolved from primates, and modern scientific research believes that the direct ancestors of early humans, Australopithecus australopithecus, about 2 million years ago, when their brain volume reached 750 ml, they became the earliest humans on earth - capable people.
So, what exactly is it that makes australopithecus brain capacity evolve rapidly? After research, scientists found that in humans, there is a DNA fragment that other primates, including bonobos with the highest genetic similarity to us, ARHGAP11B.
Researchers believe that the DNA fragment "ARHGAP11B" is most likely the key to the rapid evolution of the human brain and eventually become the only intelligent creature on Earth.
So, in order to prove their conjecture this time, the scientists conducted a very bold experiment - the DNA fragment "ARHGAP11B" was transferred to the embryo of the marmoset.
The results of the experiment are surprising, after the implantation of the DNA fragment "ARHGAP11B", the 7 marmoset embryos were bred, the brain began to develop rapidly, and from the development of the situation, there began to appear a lot of the same big fuss characteristics as humans - the brain volume continues to grow, and the epidermis layer has a fold structure, obviously, which means that after having the DNA fragment "ARHGAP11B", the experimental marmoset monkeys have begun to become more intelligent.
Of course, in the end, from a safety point of view, the 7 marmoset embryos were not successfully born, and after obtaining the desired experimental data, the scientists stopped their development.
However, this experiment can still prove that as long as there are special genes in the body, then monkeys can still become "intelligent creatures".
However, because the natural genes of primates do not have the DNA fragment "ARHGAP11B", and now that humans have become the masters of the earth, they will not allow other primates to evolve in the direction of "intelligent organisms", which also means that monkeys will never evolve into adults.
In particular, the bonobos, which are most similar to us, are already endangered species and are at risk of extinction at any time, and naturally, they are even less likely to evolve into adults when even survival is a problem.
Of course, there is another curious question here: why is it that only humans have this PIECE of DNA that can control brain development, "ARHGAP11B"? How did this magical and special piece of DNA come about?
For this question, researchers do not yet have an accurate answer, of course, this PIECE of DNA should be a genetic mutation produced in the process of ape evolution towards humans, but why it will occur, we do not know, after all, the study of human evolutionary history, there are still many unsolved mysteries.
Of course, we can also boldly guess that perhaps this magical piece of DNA was also implanted into our bodies by unknown civilizations, so who will it be?