TED Talks

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos

TV-PG
2007 • E82    May 17, 2007    19m
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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Cast of Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos

  • Susan Savage-RumbaughGuest Star

 

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