274. Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum
The Michael Shermer Show
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Are We More Like Benobos or Chimps?
I think people do want to know where we come from, what our background is. But there's this sense of which one? Are we more like benobos or chimps? I feel since they are genetically exactly equally close to us, we need to just take them both into account. We don't need to choose between the two. They both have something to often that i find interesting. Even though anthopologiess rarely talk about eroticism of the human species, they are very shy about it. The human is a very sexy species, a very sexy primate, an very sex obsessed. And so in that regard, to bedobe is a very interesting character to t contemplate
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