Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Are the Bonabos Really Relevant to Human Evolution?
Some people like to imagine that we're e the people who were perhaps on paraphrasing, but wearing flowers in their hair. They they look at the bonabos as the classic example. This is the a a, the poster boy. As it were, we must have been descended from the integral because we are inherently good. Yet it is so wishful thinking an that on the other hand, you have the anthropologists who for years have been arguing that we humans got to where we are by wiping out everybody else.
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