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Frans de Waal on chimpanzees
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Oct 4, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
We share 99% of our DNA with the chimpanzee and the bonobo. And yet we're often surprised to learn that apes, like us, can be both kind and clever. Behavioural biologist and best-selling author, Frans de Waal has spent many years observing our closest living animal relatives. He pioneered studies of kindness and peace-making in primates, when other scientists were focussing on violence, greed and aggression. Empathy, he argues, has a long evolutionary history; and he is determined to undermine our arrogant assumptions of human superiority. Frans talks to Jim Al-Khalili about growing up on the Dutch polders, chimpanzee politics, and the extraordinary sex lives of the bonobos.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
Producer: Anna Buckley.
Released:
Oct 4, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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