El ser humano es el único primate que se dedica a matar a sus congéneres de forma sistemática, a gran escala y con entusiasmo. votos 3
We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.
If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.
You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.
You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic than any primate that I know.
As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.
Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.
As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order watch every move you make â and so they know a lot more about you than you know about them.
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).
Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.