Harry Harlow's experiment demonstrated the importance of care-giving on a monkey's development. His experiment involved placing a baby rhesus monkey into a in caged location with A mother model made out of wire, and a second wire model with a cloth covering. With multiple groups he'd place a feeding bottle on either the wire or cloth model. To his findings regardless of which mother model provide the monkey with food, the monkey's built their dependency on the cloth model. This shows that comfort is extremely important to the monkey, It even favors comfort over the mother who feeds it. It's interesting to think that this could very much so apply to human infants as well. "This assembly covers about 97 percent of the genome and is based on 6X ... Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome" (http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=panTro2). This statement shows that scientist have mapped out the human genome, and it is 97% equivalent to that of a chimpanzee. Showing that humans are much like monkeys, so this study could very likely allow us to better understand the cognitive development of humans!
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