Feb. 14 -- FRIDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Many primates are capable of basic math and pre-verbal "number sense," but it's the use of language to explain abstractions that allows humans to take ...

An army of monkeys strumming on typewriters might or might not write all the books in the British Museum, as A.S. Eddington observed, but they could definitely pick football teams as well as the Bowl ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Monkeys performed about as well as college students at mental addition, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests nonverbal math skills are not unique to humans.

There’s a thought experiment called the “infinite monkey theorem” that says, given an infinite amount of time, a monkey that randomly hits keys on a typewriter will eventually reproduce any body of ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Monkeys performed about as well as college students at mental addition, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests nonverbal math skills are not unique to humans.