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Quantum computing project explores why chimpanzees wage war while bonobos live in peace

In 1964, Jane Goodall's husband Hugo van Lawick took a photo of her and an infant chimp reaching out to each other.

The programme brings together more than six decades of field observations with hybrid quantum-classical computing and advanced agent-based modelling

Credit: Hugo van Lawick

Hybrid quantum-classical computing will be used to model the ecological factors that shape conflict, cooperation and habitat use in humanity's closest living relatives.

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