Dan Ariely* has an intriguing blog post up–is it possible that chimpanzees behave more like economists’ “rational man” than humans do? And if so, what does this fact say about evolution and intelligence? Or, maybe–just maybe, mind you–does it perhaps say something more important about traditional economics, instead?

*Winner of the 2008 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize, along with Rebecca L. Waber, Baba Shiv , and Ziv Carmon, for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine.