Bonobos Quote by Frans de Waal

“The distinctiveness that we have so assiduously ascribed to ourselves as humans is, in reality, an accident of history. Imagine, for instance, how much…

— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

“Some may have been as hierarchical, tense and violent as the nastiest chimpanzee group, while others were as laid-back, peaceful and lascivious as a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and…

— Francine Prose

“For bonobos, a turbocharged sexuality utterly divorced from reproduction is a central feature of social interaction and group cohesion. Anthropologist Marvin Harris argues that…

— Christopher Ryan

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

— Kin Hubbard

Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to…

— Frans de Waal

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of…

— Jane Goodall

“between chimpanzee and Homo sapiens.”

— Dan Brown

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our…

— Jane Goodall

The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant…

— Robert Trivers

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just…

— Jane Goodall

Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended…

— Frans de Waal