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Entry Posted June 6, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/magazine/05FREAK.html “To this end, Chen has taken steps to ensure that future monkey sex at Yale occurs as nature intended it.”—do monkeys understand money? 06:26

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Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog (freakonomics.com):
… of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. De Waal has generously agreed to field questions from Freakonomics readers, so bring him your best in the comments section below. (I for one would like to know whetherprostitution is widely practicedby primates.) As with past Q&A’s, his answers will be published here shortly. …

Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com):
… of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. De Waal has generously agreed to field questions from Freakonomics readers, so bring him your best in the comments section below. (I for one would like to know whetherprostitution is widely practicedby primates.) As with past Q&A’s, his answers will be published here shortly. …

Psychology Today Blogs - Commentary, Research and News. (blogs.psychologytoday.com):
… Male monkeys also groom potential mates more diligently when fewer females are around, thus raising the prices. The researcher, Michael Gumert, describes grooming as a kind of currency. One sees a more obvious monkey correlate of prostitution in anexperimentat Yale that went awry. Capuchins were taught to value tokens and exchange them for food, but when left to their own devices, and before the experimenters could stop them, the cheeky monkeys also demonstrated their willingness to exchange tokens with …

Agoraphilia (agoraphilia.blogspot.com):
… the female would have to receive, in exchange for sex, something she could exchange for something else instead of using it herself. Unless the male macaques were handing out day-spa gift certificates, this doesn't qualify. UPDATE:This, however, does qualify as monkey prostitution:Something else happened during that chaotic scene, something that convinced [Keith] Chen of the monkeys' true grasp of money. Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of money, after all, is its …

An Economist in Paradise (fazeer.wordpress.com):
… They can even be trained to use money and exchange it for food and sex! The fact that they are used in medical research leave us in a rather awful moral dilemma. For some, their use is essential in advancing medical research, especially in the study of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson …

default brazilian politics airline ticket at brazilianpolitics.com (brazilianpolitics.com):
… their food seeking behavior to study their actions when currency and trade are introduced in their environment. The research was published at the June 2006 issue of the Journal of Political Economy (link to the paper), and has been discussed in theFreakonomics blog. It turns out that the, ahem, other interests of the Capuchin monkeys showed up in their research as well. Stephen J. Dubner, the other freakonomic, tells the story during a keynote at the AIIM Expo …

İzzy’nin Yeri (izzy.beskardes.com):
… İş güç yok tabi, ilginç konuları araştırmaya başladık. Bugünkü yazışuradanalıntı: Keith Chen, Yale Üniversitesi’nde ekonomi bölümünde görev yapan bir profesör. Keith Chen’in araştırması, maymunlara para kullanmayı öğretmek ve bunun sayesinde topladığı bilgileri insanların para ile olan ilişkisiyle …

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