I Wanted To Talk To The Animals

But Does That Mean That War And Violence Are Inevitable? I Would Argue Not Because We Have Also Evolved This Amazingly Sophisticated Intellect, And We Are Capable Of Controlling Our Innate Behavior A Lot Of The Time.

Of Course We're All Programmed Genetically To Some Extent. But The "selfish Gene" Thesis Doesn't Explain Everything.

A Chimp Would Never Plan To Pull Another's Nails Out.

I Shouldn't Have Named The Chimps. It Wasn't Scientific. I Didn't Know. I Knew Nothing. And Worse Sin Of All Was That I Was Ascribing To Them Emotions Like Happiness, Sadness And So Forth.

Here We Are, Arguably The Most Intelligent Being That's Ever Walked Planet Earth, With This Extraordinary Brain ... And Yet We're Destroying The Only Home We Have.