What would a chimpanzee do if you handed it a glittering quartz crystal? Apparently, the same thing many of us would-hold onto it, study it and refuse to let it go. A new study has found that ...
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The human obsession with crystals may be written into our ancient primate DNA, study finds
When researchers placed a foot-tall quartz crystal and an ordinary sandstone rock in front of two groups of chimpanzees near Madrid, Spain, the chimps did something remarkable. They quickly ignored ...
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What would a chimpanzee do if you handed it a glittering quartz crystal? Apparently, the same thing many of us would—hold onto it, study it and refuse to let it go. A new study has found that ...
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