Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos
http://www.ted.com 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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