Well, first I don't exactly know that the Politics is the right section for this, but then where would be ?
Had to go to the dentist this morning, and while I was waiting , I started reading in a National Geographic in the waiting room about a couple of great apes , closely related to each other and to humans.
There are some who live on the Left bank of the Kongo River, and they are slightly different from their cousins who live on the Right bank. The river is too broad for them to cross and it has led to actually two different species.
The ones who live on the Right bank (notice the capital R) are Chimpanzees. Their groups are male dominated , and disputes are settled by loud bellicose "barking" and fighting.
The ones who live on the Left bank are known as "bonobos" , once called the "pigmy Chimp" , they are in fact roughly the same size as their cousins, but chimps tend to be shorter and stockier and the bonobos are somewhat slender . The bonobos , living on the Left bank (notice the capital L) tend to solve their disputes with consensus and sex.
It occurred to me the irony of the Left bank apes tend to act more like humans on the Left side politically, and the Right bank apes tend to act like people on the Right side of the political spectrum.
I am not going to attempt to write a detailed report of the article ,so here it is:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic....bonobos/quammen-text
