Jane Goodall: What separates us from the apes?

http://www.ted.com Jane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. She urges us to start using it to change the world.

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[SuperGnodab]

Jane Goodall should be leader of the world.

[ToxxinProductions]

@StayAtHomeSon2011 Non sense like evolution and quantum physics? Those both have evidence behind them, they have proof, they have studies, they have experiments they have hundreds and thousands of people coming up with the same thing that gives more evidence of it being true. Faith requires you to believe in something that has no proof in it whatsoever and takes no intelligence whatsoever to understand.

[Ichliebemusikundybd]

@StayAtHomeSon2011 You're entirely inaccurate in your statements, it's some MEN that can't take women seriously because they have a inferiority complex. Women on the other hand have always and will continue to support each other, if you are suffering from a inferiority complex I highly recommend you seek professional help. With all love and light modern day "sexist" : )

[Ichliebemusikundybd]

Love this woman!

[projectpat12100]

@ExistenceOfBigfoot with all due respect, WHAT CASE. You've simply backed an opinion with a hypothetical situation.

[blakdynomight]

ITS THE THUMBS!!!!!!!

[MrIhaveacat]

who woooow woooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrPEDOCTOR]

she got the point.

[SonOfNye]

@xxxxxDIABLOxxx Every animal, in the absence of competition and predation has the capacity to do this and I would argue that if conditions allowed for it, would. Humans appear different in this respect simply because our cleverness, at least for now, has allowed us to cheat natural law.

[SonOfNye]

@StayAtHomeSon2011 I disagree. The reason this doesn't have a large viewership is two fold. 1) The subject matter is not something that a healthy portion of people are open to. 2) Subject matter aside, most people aren't interested in learning. I'll grant that her femininity may very well play a role in the low viewership, but it is not a large role.