Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and PlayOrangutan Invents A Joke
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Cartmill recounts witnessing an infant orangutan repeatedly offering and snatching away a stick from her mother—then the mother flips roles and does it back, revealing rule-based play with a setup-and-punchline structure.