http://www.epjournal.net/articles/dr-strangeape-or-how-to-learn-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bonobo-a-review-of-susan-block-the-bonobo-way-the-evolution-of-peace-through-pleasure/getpdf.php?file=EP1302440249.pdf
A hilarious put down by anthropologist Ryan Ellsworth of what appears to be the most incredibly asinine pile of junk science by writer Susan Block. Good for a giggle at the expense of this ridiculous "bonobos as an evolutionary model for humans" drivel.
A hilarious put down by anthropologist Ryan Ellsworth of what appears to be the most incredibly asinine pile of junk science by writer Susan Block. Good for a giggle at the expense of this ridiculous "bonobos as an evolutionary model for humans" drivel.
Clearly you are not a bonobo but just a common chimp. Your review of Susan Block's book The Bonobo Way" is really stupid. What do you mean we can't learn from other animals, we learn much from them and almost all of God's creatures are smarter than us. You sound like a very brain washed individual. Lighten up and learn from nature like the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't my review - it was Ryan Ellsworth's. But the point I make is that it is really misguided to use ANY animal species as a template for human behaviour. The specious use of bonobos as an "evolutionary template" can clearly have no foundation in science, if for no other reason than that we are not descended from them and there is no reason why bonobos, an evolutionary divergence from the common chimpanzee, from whose ancestors our human ancestors split some 8 million years ago, should therefore be informative. If you want to take your behavioural inspiration from a bonobo, well, good on you, but it ain't good evolutionary biology.
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