Chimps go ape for cinema: is this the beginning of the end for mankind?

New research shows chimpanzees bond quicker after watching films together. Time for Hollywood moguls to fetch the popcorn and head for the zoo - for everyone's sake

Four years ago, while excavating the rainforest floor of Ivory Coast, archaeologists from Leipzig's Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology made a startling discovery. From a metre deep in the earth, the archaeologists began to uncover a series crude tools that chimpanzees had passed down from generation to generation in order to enhance their food-gathering abilities. In short, they discovered that we are living through the chimpanzee stone age.

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