How unique are human beings?
That’s what I strongly feel. And I feel that for some extraordinary and peculiar reason, I have been almost pushed to do what I’ve done. I look back over my life and see the stages that led seamlessly from one to another to another. I suppose I could have said “no” and chosen a different way. But it just seemed inevitable to bring me to what I’m doing now, which is crazy, really. You discovered that chimpanzees hunt. Did anyone know this before you saw it? No Western scientist knew. I think the local people knew. But it was very exciting the first time I saw it. They hunt young pigs, young bushbuck, and they share the prey after they’ve had a successful hunt. They beg, with gestures like we use. And the meat is shared. What do you say to all those biologists who think it’s just an evolutionary accident that human beings ever evolved? It’s the explosive development of our intellect that sets us apart. I personally believe that this happened because we, and only we, have developed the ki
