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Lex Fridman had an interesting biological anthropologist who worked with Goodall studying Chimpanzees who had some interesting ideas about the divergence of hum
by imbnwa 5y ago
Lex Fridman had an interesting biological anthropologist who worked with Goodall studying Chimpanzees who had some interesting ideas about the divergence of humans from our shared ancestor with Chimpanzees[0], namely the excising of reactively hyper-violent males, e.g. alpha males.
[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJF01_ztxwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJF01_ztxwY
- Natsu 5y agoIf true, would that imply that humans were at some Goldilocks zone between the Chimpanzees and the Bonobos, then?
- imbnwa 5y agoWe branched from a shared ancestor about 5 million years ago, so before there was a distinction between Chimpanzee and Bonobo around 2 million years ago IIUC.
- joe__f 5y agoI watched the first 15 minutes of this it was really interesting. The video is quite long, where does he discuss exciting hyper violent males?
- imbnwa 5y agoFridman puts timestamps for topics in his pods within the description, so just click "Show More" there to reveal em. But you're looking for this[0] [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJF01_ztxwY&t=2356s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJF01_ztxwY&t=2356s
- joe__f 5y agoOh, certainly I mean excise and not excite