In past posts, I've mentioned that I'm a tennis fan. The last few days have been quite exciting in the tennis world as No.-1 ranked, four-time French Open champ, Rafael Nadal, was defeated in the fourth round by No. 23-ranked Robin Soderling, a Swedish player who never won so much as a third-round match at a major tournament before beating Nadal. Soderling went on to thrash Nikolay Davydenko and is now in the semifinals.
I've watched these matches on the Tennis Channel (replays in the evening, Dan), which, like most channels, runs commercials. Many are for stores selling tennis apparel or exotic locales where you can play tennis to your heart's content. However, one commercial that declares "humans are smarter than apes" has captured my attention and made me laugh on more than one occasion. It also made me wonder how much smarter we really are, especially when I recently read about a relatively complex chimp-made toolkit.
