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TED Talks: Season 2011

2011x13 Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans
TV-PG

  • 2011-03-22T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing -- solo, with friends, even as a prelude to sex. Indeed, play appears to be the bonobos' key to problem-solving and avoiding conflict. If it works for our close cousins, why not for us?
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