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Frans de Waal: Gender, Apes, and Us

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The Benobo, Is Not Territorial and Not Violence?

Archaeological evidence for war only goes back about 12 thousand years. That's interesting, because there are many kinds of animals that gang up in hunting. And so it is highly speculative to say that we have always waged war,. That's what people assume, but there is no real solid evidence for that. Feel i think benobos may be actually er more similar to what we imagine the common ancestor to be. If you see them, look a lot like astrolopitica. So they look like a lot like our ancestors.

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