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But that doesn't dispute our nastiness. Give the chimps a large brain,
introduce them to advanced tool, wait a few thousand years and they'll be
blowing theirselves up too.
However, I don't think that man is inherently bad or good for that matter -
we are just another animal with our own characteristics and behaviour, and
shaped by a brain that may be too large for our own good (or perhaps not;
time will tell).
Marilyn
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From: "Ken Stuart" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: Chocolate
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:51:01 -0500, Marilyn Harris <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Re: Goodall and nasty humans: she's exactly right - what other animal is
>wrecking the planet
>and devises the most elaborate methods of slaughtering their own kind in
>incredibly staggering numbers?
But the point of the chimpanzee war is that she realized she was wrong:
"When I first started at Gombe, I thought the chimps were nicer than we
are,"
Jane recalls wistfully. "But time has revealed that they are not. They can
be
just as awful."
And, as I mentioned, the difference is quantitative - as you say, numbers.
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Cheers,
Ken
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