Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Are You an Outlier in This Is Iotist of All With His Crazy Benoba Views?
There's this prevailing view that, in fact, weare inherently, inherently good. And i think human males have a lot in common with the cimponcy males. I would never describe the human species as y peaceful species. But i do believe that we need to take the bonobo very seriously,. and that it's very well possible that in the longer history of our species, we werewere not nearly as violent as we are now. So this would clearly argue for some sort of mixed ascendancy... We certainly have aspects prima associated with us.
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