Forged in Nature’s Cauldron

Kevin D. Hunt

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9 - Forged in Nature’s Cauldron

Engineering the Chimpanzee

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 July 2020

Kevin D. Hunt

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Indiana University, Bloomington

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If we humans were a little less egocentric, we might celebrate chimpanzees rather than humans as nature’s last word. Fast and powerful; capable of running up a flagpole; able to hang by one arm for 15 minutes at a time; at home on the ground and in the trees; endowed by nature almost from birth with the balance and agility of a circus acrobat – they are quite literally superhuman. And beyond these physical attributes they are astonishingly intelligent. Chimpanzees are a natural wonder.

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Information: Chimpanzee
Lessons from our Sister Species
, pp. 131 - 157

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316339916.009 [Opens in a new window]

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