An old adage says that a monkey randomly clicking away at the keyboard would eventually type the complete works of William Shakespeare after being at it long enough. However, a new study by two ...

Beating the bard at his own game? It was all over the media. "Virtual Monkeys Write Shakespeare" proclaimed the BBC website. "Monkeys type out the entire works of Shakespeare by hitting random keys ...

It’s a midsummer’s pipe dream. Chimpanzees might be capable of human speech— but they can’t ape our literary prowess. Australian scientists have disproven the theory that a monkey could eventually ...