Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The Sapolsky Event

Robert Sapolsky's Kenya baboon troupe experienced a transformation years ago. Please Google all that for the details. The upshot of this is that we as a species will never begin to mature out of the mire that we continue to create until Homo sapiens experiences a Sapolsky Event as the baboon troupe.
For future research: was it a Sapolsky Event that temperamentally separated the chimps and bonobos? Was it a Sapolsky Event (the Napoleonic Wars) that gave the French their reputation as great lovers (and/or surrender monkeys)? Meanwhile I'll expect of us only more of the same. Forever.
(Oh by the way, I coined the term "Sapolsky Event." Here it is.)

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