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Exactly. We and gorillas share much more behavior than most realize. Everything from desire for friendship and love to desire for social status and achievement
by dmitriy_ko 14y ago
Exactly. We and gorillas share much more behavior than most realize. Everything from desire for friendship and love to desire for social status and achievement work pretty much EXACTLY the same. A book which made me realize this is "Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World". Title seems a bit unrelated to this topic, but this book basically shows that pretty much all our motivations are inherited from our great ape ancestors (and are shared by chimps – out closest living specie in terms of behavior).
- rimantas 14y ago> Everything from desire for friendship and love to desire > for social status and achievement work pretty much > EXACTLY the same And you know this how? Some gorilla told you?
- dr42 14y agoBy behavioral observation
- krschultz 14y agoMaybe if you read the book he mentioned you would find out the answer to your question.
- a_bonobo 14y agoThese are just hints to similar behaviour, _no definite proof_ is available and impossible to obtain. Which is why behavioural biologists don't even go down that path of "humanizing" animals - all they do is link certain behaviour to certain actions (famous example: anal-sniffing as sexual behaviour in guinea-pigs or dogs). Looking at animals through the "human glass" can lead to some insights, but can certainly lead to terribly wrong results, too: It's like overfitting a statistical model, you'll get noise where you expect results.