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Chimps, who beat humans in a test of short-term memory conducted by Japanese scientists. The results, in which the simians were faster than people in recalling a pattern of numbers from one to nine, challenges the assumption that “humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions,” scientists said.

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