Comments on: ‘Hippie chimp’ genome sequenced

By: Bennie Beaver

Bennie Beaver — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:32:21 +0000

The article should have said, unlike their warring chimpanzee (and) Homo sapien relatives, bonobos shun violence.

If you consider human kind throughout history those males at the top of the physical rung continued dominating by finding ways to control procreation among the lower groups. As a result, chimp like humans reproducing results in a world fuller of chimps, and soon wars breaks out. Almost every society throughout history has regularly spawned this ultimate violence again and again. That’s why we see some more violent societies today because of controlled top down procreation.

On the other hand, America for a few centuries was such a large open continent whereby those machophiles at the top had a difficult time controlling the masses of reproduction. The result has been a little more civil and sane America for a time. Today however, as a result of improving transportation and communication those same old machophiles at the top are back at their old game of solidifying power by passing one law after the other, until soon, they alone will again dominate procreation. As a result America and the world will again be fuller of chimp like humans and again back at war. Don’t think so, then just keep your eyes and ears on the news. They always continue to pass one law after the other until they have absolute order and power. It’s that same old muscle headed instinct that it will take science to change if mankind don’t become just one more extinct planet in the universe.

Where creating smaller and more powerful weapons in which a few or only one individual could destroy a city. Science will have no choice but to change human nature. It will begin within the next fifty years.

By: NakedApe

NakedApe — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:07:09 +0000

The multiple region evolutionary hypothesis sounds like nonsense to me. Separate regions lead to separate species not the same one. How do different species converge into a single one (which we are), pray tell? Has that ever happened? I think some people are just loath to admit that they are related to Africans as a result of their racism and use very convoluted logic to try to find an alternative explanation. The Chinese apparently tried to use genetic sequencing to prove that they evolved from Homo erectus independently from the rest of humanity only to find that they, too, were related to Africans.
The Bonobo studies are important because they show us that we also have the capacity to “make love, not war.” Our continued existence may depend on it.

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:58:09 +0000

I’m a hippie. I’ve got hair down almost to my —-. My Yoga teacher had a chimp. No longer needed for medical experiments, he adopted her. All she wanted to do was to preen me all day, looking for ticks and fleas. She just wanted to fit in, and in chimp society who preens who set social rank. Yea hippies like chimps and chimps like hippies!

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:55:52 +0000

Bonobobots?

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:46:10 +0000

Bill Clinton once gave a long lecture about bonobos, because of their sexual proclivities. Father with daughters, mothers with sons, brothers with sisters, any age group with any other age group. They have no taboos! I know of a lot of bible belt people who would love to save their souls. Oh the humanity of it all. God is gonna come down and smite that Sodom one of these days. Just you wait. You’ll see ! We should hold a telethon, raise up a lot of money and do it for our selves, seeing how God must be busy somewhere else. But he’s watching, and I can tell you personally . He’s told me. A good nuke goes a long way. Such a terrible influence on people. Look away , before your influenced like poor Bill.

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:30:27 +0000

Wait till those other primates lose their jobs to robots, were gonna see a lot of naked aggression then.

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:25:17 +0000

What happened to Viagra, there is a large increase of sexually transmitted deceases in the 70 to 80 year olds! Maybe we are a lot more like bonobos tha we care to admit.

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:11:03 +0000

Ralph, best offer I had all day! I’m going as Chiquita Banana, myself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDOI24RRAE

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:11:40 +0000

To Editor, could I be your date? Bonobostock is always fun. I am sadly a little bit beyond the sex and rock and roll stage, but I still enjoy bananas.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:51:34 +0000

“When food is more consistently available, a lot of the aggression you see in chimps, you don’t need anymore,” says Wobber.

I can think of another primate species whose aggression is no longer necessary, or helpful.

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:45:34 +0000

I think we should stage Bonobostock, headlining Bono, of course. I’d recommend a Kickstarter, but that word is too aggressive for hippie bonobos. Ad headline: Sex, bananas, and rock & roll.

By: Giulio Prisco

Giulio Prisco — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:33:29 +0000

@Peter – I like bonobos, and I like hippies. Hippies like bonobos, and I am sure bonobos would like hippies.

By: Peter Simmons

Peter Simmons — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:28:39 +0000

There is still differing opinions on whether humans all came from Africa or evolved separately in different regions. But that aside, what has any of this to do with hippies, a term coined and used by the media for anyone with long hair or slightly different tastes to them? Do bonobos like to categorise and label others also? Maybe there’s a gene for it.