What We Can Learn From Chimpanzees (That Might Help us Become Better Men)
You’re quite a bit smarter than any ape that’s ever lived – and more civilised. In other areas, however, humans’ closest living relative might just have the edge. Is it time to embrace your inner primate?
- by
Dan Williams
13 May
2021
Back in the Eighties, a 10-year-old named Cyril Grueter dragged his parents to a screening of
Gorillas in the Mist. Bold and haunting, it tells the true story of American primatologist Dian Fossey, who bonded with the mountain gorillas of central Africa.
“I was intrigued by the beauty of these creatures,” says Grueter, now in his 40s and a biological anthropologist at the University of Western Australia. “I read everything I could get a hold of about them, and I knew that studying these primates would become my career.”