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[Joe Garden <joegarden AT yahoo.com>]

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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