Learning Morality from Monkeys
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Uploaded by EmoryUniversity on Aug 18, 2009
Frans de Waal is director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and a professor of psychology at Emory University. His current research includes food-sharing, social reciprocity, and conflict-resolution in primates as well as the origins of morality and justice in human society. De Waal draws on his own work with primates to illustrate the evolution of morality.
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this supports the theory of evolution!
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Humans could learn everything from animals ... if only they used there intelligence ... hum
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I am not an animal! I am a couch potato!
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wow
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@TheWeeaboo Don't believe me ehh? Search koko the talking gorilla and watch it for your own eyes! :P
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@shady4life1991 woot? that must have been a pretty amazing study. But while im atheist i find it hard to believe this. ^^
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this ape likes what the ape in the video said
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Frans de Waal's audiobook for "The Age of Empathy" absolutely rocks and would make a great gift this season! Wonderful food for thought. :)
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One (one) of my favorite Dutchman.
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@openingman - humans practice infanticide, how divine!
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every thinking monkey should watch this! brillian man!
YelloweOrc 1 year ago 11
Frans de Waal is a genuis. His studies is reclaiming humans place within nature. The dichrotomy, nature vs nurture is an imaginiary one. They go hand and hand.
innovateur 2 years ago 6