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By Kevin Laland - Sep 23,2017
Last month, moviegoers flocked to theatres to see “War for the Planet of the Apes”, in which an army of retrovirus-modified primates wage war against humanity.Chimpanzees on horseback, machinegun-wielding gorillas and scholarly orangutans undoubtedly make for good theatre.
By Kevin Laland - Jul 11,2017
Is there an evolutionary explanation for humanity’s greatest successes — technology, science and the arts — with roots that can be traced back to animal behaviour?I first asked this question 30 years ago, and have been working to answer it ever since.Plenty of animals use tools,