ugly society of bonobos
The struggle for transferring genetic heritage to the next generation is socially conditioned to humans, which continues in this way tied to the soil of their own genes . Genes speak and command from the sly backroom within each one with a deep and compelling voice is the voice of our ancestors. Bonobos are a species of ape more dominated by females and prefer to make love, not war.
some scientists have an interest in studying the evolution, to understand the roots with which, perhaps, may come to understand more the homo sapiens sapiens
, their instincts, their ways of reacting to the group and others, their internal motivations or instinctive. To do this use two fronts: some seek to remove from the fossils found conclusions on the behavior of early hominids, a task that demands to extrapolate the conclusions obtained from the most minute detail the entire population. The other current attempts hecerlo by studying the behavior of large groups of apes, from there, studying the behavior in the jungle or the zoo scientists seek to explain the present reach of the human race with the findings that may be obtained from the study of behavior monkeys. An important point is to discover what kind of apes is that which corresponds to our ancestors, so far not been possible to determine.
the study of groups of chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans have been found features very present in today's homo sapiens as violence, infanticide, unbridled testosterone, the male domain, struggles with outside groups. Just
was discovered in 1929 the existence of a new species of African apes: bonobos (pan paniscus
) actually discovered were considered only from that time as a separate species of chimpanzee who were hitherto confined, these ape-like chimpanzees, but smaller, have a completely different behavior of groups of older monkeys, to start is the females dominate the males remain for their entire lives under the sway of their mothers and female dominant the herd, they, like humans, a partial separation of estrus and reproductive and sexual activity used for multiple purposes, including, believed by some primatologists, for pleasure.
If two adult monkeys come into conflict, rather than attacking each other, sometimes even result in serious injury or death as they would the rest of the great apes, they turn to their mothers so that they resolve the conflict with the proverbial peace condition in females, the members of a herd is not the biggest problem engages in sexual activities, even as a way of getting between different groups and to resolve conflicts and always prefer rubs a fight. You could say that beam proclaiming love and not war. Nor have found a way as common as in other groups apes, cases of infanticide, Frans de Waal writes, the renowned Dutch zoologist, in the article "Bonobo: sex and society", published in a special edition of Scientific American magazine
(
http://www.scientificamerican. com / ), this is due to the high possibility that these puppies can be, given the prevailing high promiscuity, children of any of the males, (a situation different from what happens in groups of gorillas and chimpanzees in which Alpha males are the pimps of over 80% of the young) and would not be developmentally appropriate for a male remove a calf that may carry their own genetic heritage.
Thus, the bonobos, dominated by females and away from the violent practices of the other apes are a group apparently idyllic old, who spend much of their time engaged in vigorous sexual activity, even among specimens of the same sex . The question is: Would it be sensible, then, think about the possibility that homo sapiens
might result from these apes hippies? I'm afraid not, according to de Waal, the basis of homo sapiens groups lies in the pact of loyalty in exchange for food, "like the one practiced most of the rest of the Apes," seeks to ensure that limited resources male not used in the maintenance of young outside, ie non-foreign genes which survive at the expense of my resources and my genes, this assumption influences the whole behavior of homo sapiens as a social animal.
The outline of the bonobos in their promiscuity, the lack of security that is the male offspring carry on what their genetic heritage, says Professor De Waal, is completely opposite to that of homo sapiens sapiens
. Humans in their quest to know who their offspring can not give up sex for free, should be limited to ideas and taboos that allow them to be sure that they are investing their resources in the future of their own genetic heritage.
Also published in Journal the FaroTuerto on this topic:
"The virtues of promiscuity" in:
http://heribertorodriguez.blogspot.com/2005/08/virtudes-de-la-promiscuidad.html Update: an interesting interview with Frans De Waal in Der Spiegel (in English):
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0, 1518,433327,00. html