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The Great Apes’ Guide to Human Nature
In the great apes, an anthropologist finds compelling insights into humankind.
What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who’s spent three decades studying the lives of our closest cousins.
Humans share upwards of 98% of their DNA with the great apes — gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans — and Stanford, a professor of biological sciences and anthropology, looks to the nonhuman primates for insights into human evolution and the origins of our behavior.