Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An old adage says that a monkey randomly clicking away at the keyboard would eventually type the complete works of William ...

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 ...

Could monkeys randomly striking keys on a keyboard for an for an infinite period of time produce a Shakespearean work? Doubtful, says a new study of the "Infinite Monkey Theorem." On more certitude in ...

Given an infinite amount of time, an infinite number of monkeys randomly prodding keys on a typewriter could, in theory, eventually replicate the works of William Shakespeare. At least, that's what a ...