Some bonobos are challenging the notion that humans are the only primates capable of group-to-group alliances.
Sister Simone Campbell on Pope Francis. Bonobos -- our closest relatives. Roy Zimmerman: 'Abstinence Only.'
We have much to learn about ourselves from the bonobo ape, our closest relative. But have they survived human civil war in the Congo?
In a book coming out next week called The Bonobo and the Atheist, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that morality is built into our species. Rather than coming to us top-down from God, or any other external source, morality for de Waal springs bottom-up from our emotions and our day-to-day social interactions, which themselves evolved from foundations in animal societies.
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