The gentle genius of bonobos

Title:
The gentle genius of bonobos
Speaker:
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh
Description:

Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
17:08
Format: HTML5
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