The Bi-Polar Ape

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Are humans the Bi-Polar Ape, caught between love and war forever? Featured on The Guardian, Steven Pinker, Richard Wrangham and Frans de Waal discuss the evolutionary evidence and debate whether human nature is essentially violent like our chimpanzee cousins or essentially peaceful like our equally related bonobo ancestors.

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  • lo podrian traducir ? gracias

  • @destejiendoelarcoiri Gracias por su solicitud de traducir. Ahora, sólo tenemos este vídeo disponible en Inglés. Vamos a pedir al director para las opciones de traducción.

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  • So I Am an Ape does have a pi-polar! Help me God!....

  • Do pi-polar have to kill? and what will happen If this does?

  • I believe that the closer we become drawn to the divine love that is the real human spirit, we will also have the potential to be very violent. And that the only way to stop the darkness from winning, is to destroy our own ego and truly find love. That way, the roller-coaster ride, that many of us experience as life, will finally end.

  • @pawsoned

    You complete ignoramus, u'll say anything to try and cast aspersions on anything Pinker contributes to- pathetic trolling which only serves to make you look ridiculous

  • @pawsoned Do a little research before you make accusations. Bonobos are apes and genetically they are as closely (in fact slightly closer) related to us as chips. And yes bonobos actually have the most complex tool use of all the apes (excluding human apes).

  • 3:02 Wrong! The Bonobos are not apes but monkeys. And if we are related to those animals we cannot be related to those three in particular. Why not one, why not eleven? If gorillas and chimpanzees are our close relatives (aggressive Apes) then Bonobos are our distant (and not close as de Waal claims), because apart from being monkeys they don't use tools, as humans and apes do.

    Nice story, but I don't buy it. Keep looking for the mystery of human nature.

    P.S.:So now Pinker is dr and not a prof!

  • Did we learn anything new? This is a bit shallow.

  • Replico el pedido de traducción! Muchas gracias y saludos!

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