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It Was Both Fascinating And Appalling To Learn That Chimpanzees Were Capable Of Hostile And Territorial Behavior That Was Not Unlike Certain Forms Of Primitive Human Warfare.

Researchers Find It Very Necessary To Keep Blinkers On. They Don't Want To Admit That The Animals They Are Working With Have Feelings.

We Started Off With Physical Evolution And Got Our Form. Then We Somehow Developed Language, Which Meant Cultural Evolution Could Race So We Could Change Our Behavior Really Quickly Instead Of Over Hundreds And Hundreds Of Years. And Then Comes Moral Evolution, Which Means We're Not Frightfully Far Along With People. And Maybe We End Up With A Spiritual Evolution, Which Is This Connectedness With The Rest Of The Life Forms On The Planet.

Certainly It's Very Often True That Women Tend To Be A Bit Quieter And More Prepared To Sit There And Let The Animal Tell You Things.

And I Thought How Sad It Was That, For All Our Sophisticated Intellect, For All Our Noble Aspirations, Our Aggressive Behavior Was Not Just Similar In Many Ways To That Of The Chimpanzees - It Was Even Worse. Worse Because Human Beings Have The Potential To Rise Above Their Baser Instincts, Whereas Chimpanzees Probably Do Not.