Jane Goodall
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 24 Apr
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And once they captured such an individual, they would subject him or her to a really, really brutal and sustained attack.
Nothing like that happens within a community.
This is very...
special to inter-community interactions.
And the chimps, particularly the young males, appear to enjoy this kind of conflict.
And the young male will actually go back into a danger zone and peer at the enemies.
They also show patterns when they attack strangers that they never showed during intra-community fighting, that's fighting within their community, such as bending, twisting a limb round and round, drinking blood, tearing the skin, the sort of thing you see when they're trying to kill an adult prey animal.
Yes, it suggests if we believe in Darwinian evolution, if we believe as Lewis did, and I do, that at one time we shared a common ancestor, then it seems fairly clear that we have inherited certain violent tendencies from our ancient primate ancestors.
ancestors.
But I've been criticized for publishing some of these violent episodes because there are scientists who have argued that if I publish them, then there will be those who try to make use of those observations to imply that we are a violent species and war is inevitable.
And I believe that we have...
quite a strong free will and that we are able to choose the direction we go we don't have to go around being violent and in fact most people don't most people are quite disciplined and we have to also remember that equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage are compassion love and altruism because we find wonderful examples of these qualities in the chimps that we've studied
Some people do feel that and they say, which do I like best, chimps or people?
And I say, well, chimps are so like us that I like some people much more than some chimps and some chimps much more than some people.
That's a great answer.
I am here.
Well, I mean, it's pretty amazing, really, isn't it?
I mean, 500 cinemas across the country is something that hasn't happened to me before.
The event is a half-hour live gathering of interesting people and surprises in a studio in Los Angeles, which is prior to showing the film Jane's Journey, which is something I'm very, very...
deeply involved in, having been part of it for the past, well, three and a half years.
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