Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, who can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.



Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, who can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.



http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_on_apes_that_write.html