ABSTRACT
Since Plato started to muse on the question in the fourth century BCE, scholars have tried to fathom which exerts most influence on us: nature or nurture, genetics or the environment? Thibaud Gruber and his colleagues didn’t come up with the answer, but their research offered a new slant on the age-old question. Gruber et al. presented two genetically similar groups of wild East African chimpanzees with a simple, but unfamiliar challenge under identical ecological conditions: how to get honey from a hole drilled in a log.
