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With Friday's opening of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," we think it's a good time to consider the man vs. primate war on another front: stock picking. Here's a look at some of the best primate stock pickers in recent history.

The brain is an amazing thing. "It consumes less power than a light bulb and occupies less space than a two-liter bottle of soda," writes Dharmendra S. Modha, manager of cognitive computing at IBM (IBM), in his blog. Yet it performs functions no computer can -- many of them quite basic. Think of...