Chimpanzies Smarter than Human Children

At least when it comes to this one test. As posted on Slashdot, this is a particularily interesting article about how chimpanzies and human children learn differently.

I wonder what this says about religion -- it gets passed down to children from their parents before they have the mental capacity to see how extraneous it is, and they take it up via imitation. Although some people eventually decide it's not for them, there are plenty of people who never consider abandoning it because they grow comfortable with the rituals, like the social acceptance that comes from it, or simply aren't intellectually curious enough to even ponder the larger questions in the first place...