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Studies show chimps being spontaneously helpful to other chimps and humans in complex ways, without benefit of any rewards. Increasingly humans want to get "payed" for such helpfulness to other humans. And as for humans helping animals, well..............

Studies show that chimps demonstrate helpiing other chimps and humans previously unknown to them, without any incentive for reward. Increasingly humans want to get "payed" for helping other humans, and animals are just for food or emotional gratification.

If complexity of the interactive structure is a measure of intelligence, then why are humans increasingly bent on self-destuction ? Hardly seems intelligent at all., See another Dicover magazine item anout chimps developing altruism.

The complexity of the interactive structure may not be a measure of intelligence, but just another arrogant assumption by a prejudiced human. Accelerating tendency towards self destuction by humans hardly seems intelligent.