The Relationship Between Bonobos and Chimpanzees

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We share 98.7% of our DNA with chimpanzees and bonobos, but not the same parts as chimps. Some parts of our DNA we share only with bonobos; others are more likely to be found in chimpanzees. We get our egalitarian, matriarchal, peace-loving pot smoking genes from the bonobos,' he says. 'And we get our jingoistic, gun-loving, patriarchal, cocaine-snorting genes from the chimpanzees side'

We look into the evidence from primatology and archaeology to find the roots of human cannibalism in nature or nurture. Along the way we find shadows our own dual nature between sexy hippy bonobos and hawkish war chimps; learn how homo sapiens slept with their food, visit a stone age cave of nightmares in Britain; and join the debate over what seems to have been a short-lived fad for eating humans among the Ancestral Pueblo.

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