The team found about a 5% chance that a single ape would key in bananas in its lifetime.
The complete works of Shakespeare was a different beast.
As such, we reject the conclusions from the Infinite Monkeys Theorem as potentially misleading within our finite universe.
A chimpanzee in front of a typewriter.Photo: New York Zoological Society / Wikimedia Commons
This doesnt put the thought experiment to bed.
Chimpanzees will continue to evolvegive them a few million years and they could yield the new Shakespeare.
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