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There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
Frans de Waal
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Frans de Waal
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 29
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Frans B M de Waal
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We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.
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Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.
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Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
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It wasn't God who introduced us to morality rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.
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Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.
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The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.
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Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.
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Exclusive homosexuality is not very common in nature.
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The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.
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Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.
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The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.
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In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.
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