"Chimps ahead of children with human mothering Infant chimpanzee orphans given special human "mothering" are more advanced than the average child at nine months of age, according to a study by Professor Kim Bard of the University of Portsmouth. She looked at 46 chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Centre in Atlanta in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s and found that youngsters given extra emotionally based care were more cognitively advanced than human infants. The study was a "stark warning" that just looking after physical needs was likely to result in a child who was maladjusted, she said."
but apparently we are very good at raising chimps...
"Chimps ahead of children with human mothering
Infant chimpanzee orphans given special human "mothering" are more advanced than the average child at nine months of age, according to a study by Professor Kim Bard of the University of Portsmouth. She looked at 46 chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Centre in Atlanta in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s and found that youngsters given extra emotionally based care were more cognitively advanced than human infants. The study was a "stark warning" that just looking after physical needs was likely to result in a child who was maladjusted, she said."