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  • From: Joe Garden <joegarden AT yahoo.com>
  • To: monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [monkeywire] Tuesday: Nova Bonobo Documentary
  • Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:42:49 -0800 (PST)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bonobos/

Next week, NOVA will be presenting “The Last Great Ape,” the story
of the endangered bonobo ape, whose remarkable social behavior and
genetics scientists are only beginning to understand. “The Last Great
Ape” will premiere Tuesday, February 13 at 8 pm on PBS.

Chimpanzees present scientists with a picture of humans at their most
aggressive and warlike. But the gentle bonobo, one of our closest
living relatives, represents a very different genetic heritage: A
matriarchal
society bound by empathy, nonviolence, and sex. Yet scientists have
been studying wild bonobos for only a few decades, and they may be
running

out of time, as the ravages of war and hunger threaten the bonobos’
survival. Will humans be responsible for wiping bonobos off the
earth—erasing a genetic trail that may lead us to the root of human
social behavior?



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  • [monkeywire] Tuesday: Nova Bonobo Documentary, Joe Garden, 02/11/2007

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