Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > On 8/22/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Charles Brown wrote: > > >> What distinguishes humans from animals is culture. > > > > there was an article in a recent issue of HARPER'S which discussed how > > different groups of apes had different cultures, some more pacifistic > > and others more warlike. > > I've heard bonobos are favored by leftists. :->
Our favored primates should be that unique 'tribe' of baboons in which all the Alpha males died of food poisoning and as a result the tribe developed a "bonobo-like" culture that got passed on to a subsequent generation and even to outside males that joined it after the 'first' generation had died off. Carrol
