How This River Made Chimps Violent
When a group of apes got split apart, slight differences in their new environments led to big differences in future generations.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Chimpanzee: A great ape native to tropical Africa that is one of humanity’s closest living relatives.
- Bonobo: A slightly smaller great ape native to tropical Africa that is one of humanity’s closest living relatives.
- Speciation: A lineage-splitting event in which a population of the same species becomes two different species.
- Allopatric speciation: Speciation that occurs when populations of the same species get isolated geographically.
- Hominini: The taxonomical classification that includes humans, chimps, and bonobos.
- Pan: The taxonomical classification that includes chimps and bonobos.
- Chimpobo: A name we just made up to identify the common ancestor of the chimpanzee and bonobo.
- Congo river: The deepest river in the world and the second largest (behind the Amazon) in discharge volume.
- G-G Rubbing: A form of genital to genital contact bonobos sometimes use to form social bonds.
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