👁The gentle genius of bonobos
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👣Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.
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👁A dig for humanity's origins
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👣Louise Leakey asks, \"Who are we?\" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind -- and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing ancestors.
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👁The surprising science of alpha males
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👣In this fascinating look at the \"alpha male,\" primatologist Frans de Waal explores the privileges and costs of power while drawing surprising parallels between how humans and primates choose their leaders. His research reveals some of the unexpected capacities of alpha males -- generosity, empathy, even peacekeeping -- and sheds light on the power struggles of human politicians. \"Someone who is big and strong and intimidates and insults everyone is not necessarily an alpha male,\" de Waal says.
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