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theadvancedapes  ·  4180 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 5 Human/Chimpanzee Differences

de Waal's latest book claims that empathy came from the primate world? Chimpanzees can behave with empathy. So can bonobos and other great apes.

I've read Hodobler and Wilson's work on eusociality. I think it is true that we are eusocial and the other great apes aren't. I suppose I didn't list it because eusociality is a function of having complex language and the desire to teach and by taught etc. But point taken. I've never heard of Chomskey's LAD.