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20 Dec 09

Early Humans Finally Drunk Enough To Invent Dancing | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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01 Nov 09

Why Neanderthals Really Went Extinct: Begley | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com

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19 Oct 09

Frans de Waal: Was "Ardi" a Liberal?

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But "Ardi" seems to have had more in common with the hippie-like bonobo.
- Fill me in. How is the bonobo "hippie-like"? - on 2009-10-19
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In the 1970s, humans were known as born "killer apes" with an insatiable lust to eliminate their own kind. At about the same time, chimpanzees were found to brutally kill their neighbors and to commit infanticide. The chimpanzee was quickly adopted as our ancestral type, meaning that violence is in our DNA, that humanity will wage war in perpetuity, and that competition and power struggles are our way of life. Anyone who thought differently was considered a romantic dreamer.
- I love this controversy. The extinction of Neanderthals -- a species parallel to us, like cousins, that disappeared 10,000 years after we Homo Sapiens emerged in Europe -- suggests that Homo Sapiens may have committed their first genocide way back then. The jury's still out, but it's fascinating.
  
  Let's see what Ardi adds to the mix. - on 2009-10-19
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- With their "gay" relations, female supremacy, and "make love -- not war" pacifism, bonobos became the idols of the left.
  - But are we descended from them? I have no idea. Anybody? - on 2009-10-19
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- it is genetically exactly as close to us as the chimpanzee.
  - That partly answers my question. - on 2009-10-19
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- They urged them to stick with the donkey.
  - Nice wit. - on 2009-10-19
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- I myself have witnessed a brutal assault and castration by males against a rival,
  - Jeez!!! - on 2009-10-19
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- the bonobo-like name of Owen Lovejoy,
  - This is what we mean by "writing with VOICE." The author clearly has wit, and we like that.
    
    Highlight any other examples of voice that you find. - on 2009-10-19
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- , and highly promiscuous.
  - We're not peaceful, but we are (arguably) promiscuous. - on 2009-10-19
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- look eerily human-like because their legs are longer than those of any other ape and they seem to more fully stretch their backs. Harold Coolidge, the anatomist who first described this species, in 1933, noted that the bonobo "may approach more closely to the common ancestor" than any living ape.
  - But isn't this argument by phenotypic similarity unconvincing, especially since it's undercut by the "chimps and bonobos are equally related to us" assertion earlier in the piece? - on 2009-10-19
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- relatively small canines,
  - Like us. I get that. But.... - on 2009-10-19
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- remarkably peaceful
- Ardi is telling us something
  - In the end, how much does it really matter which interpretation we choose? Honest question. Help me out.
    
    If nothing else, it shows us that even science can be political, like practically everything else. - on 2009-10-19
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