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Actually, I believe that the chimpanzee (Pan pan) is slightly closer to Homo
sapiens genetically than the bonobo; IIRC, the current thinking is that the
chimp and the ancestral hominid diverged from the common ancestor at roughly the
same time, then the bonobo split off from the chimpanzee line. The difference,
however, is slight.
All of this doesn't invalidate Nessie's point, of course; the fascinating way
bonobos use sex--with everyone and everything--raises some very serious
questions about just how our hominid ancestors actually did behave, and just
what is "natural" and "unnatural" sexual behavior for us...if there *is* such a
thing as "unnatural" sexual conduct. The bonobos certainly make a very strong
case for the proposition that, sexually, anything at all is natural.
I sometimes wonder how differently anthropology might have evolved if European
scientists had discovered the bonobo before they investigated the social
behavior of the chimpanzee and the baboon, and had decided that "Early Man" had
been a lover, not a fighter...
Bob
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> Then there's our nearest living relatives, the bonobo:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4451/bonobos.html
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