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The gentle genius of bonobos

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh · TED

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About

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.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2004
Speaker
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh
Year
2004
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Languages and linguistics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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