#4 Bonobo Expert Dr. Amy Parish

You may know that bonobos are closely related to chimps—and humans. You may know that they are considered “the sexy ape’ because they use sex to dispel tension and create social bonds. But did you know that our closest non-human primate relatives are a female dominant species? And that they especially love girl on girl action? We know all this and more thanks to Dr. Amy Parish, a “Darwinian feminist’ and change-maker in the field of biological anthropology.

 

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Show Notes

Sex and Friendship in Bonobos By Barbara Smuts | https://amzn.to/2WP2CpL

Lorena Bobbitt | https://nyti.ms/2DIRPU0

A Gibbon Duet | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGe_UGrrj40 

White Handed Gibbons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lar_gibbon

The Woman That Never Evolved by Sarah Hardy | https://amzn.to/2wGDKSw