ANTH 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Swimming Hole, Galago, Hominidae
30 Oct 2018
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Something strange is happening in the forests of africa. Chimpanzees are doing things no one has seen them do before. They are having pool parties, but that is not all. At a site called fongoli, in senegal, they have also invented a remarkable way to catch a meal. They are making spears and hunting, just like our ancestors. After all, the great apes (chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos) seem so much like us it is hard not to feel a deep connection. We have come to see that we are more similar to them than we ever imagined. But for every revelation about the power of their minds, another shows up a stunning difference. If you think that human genetics and ape genetics are 99% the same, what we have managed to achieve and our current position on this earth is so strikingly different from that of the apes (rebecca saxe, mit).
