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Re:Training Rats as Traders by nav on Friday March 13, 2009 @11:51PM (#515611)
Well Keith Chen @ yale showed that capuchin monkeys show the same fundamental behavior as humans. By the end, they were trading jello beans for sex and creating their own bubble economy. http://tinyurl.com/au5hq

Comment from a buddy of mine Kartik, that I figured I'd share with the thread.

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Re:Training Rats as Traders by jibiki on Saturday March 14, 2009 @12:27AM (#515623)
Cool article, maybe you should submit it. There was a similar article some months ago, but it seems to have gone unnoticed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248613

The NYT article you cited is way better, although I don't think there's much that one can say about either of them.

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