As an associate professor of psychology, Sally Boysen has spent her career peering into the minds of our closest cousins, the chimpanzees. Her findings show that chimpanzees can be taught some human-like cognitive skills that never show in the wild. Boysen has taught chimps to count and to subtract and she documented their ability to think abstractly. Her work, sometimes is contentious, often sheds light on the way our own intelligence might have evolved. Boysen …showed first 75 words of 373 total…

…showed last 75 words of 373 total…this in the wild. It's a real bonding thing - wonderful pleasant quality time. In the last 27 years, I've learned stuff nobody else could know." I thought it was every intrusting that you she as learn so much about chimps and how there minds works. I we neat the hear about her experiences in test the intelligence of the chimps. She also talked about how she treats them just like young children when testing them.