<div class="gmail_quote">On 19 June 2012 23:36, John Grigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:possiblepaths2050@gmail.com" target="_blank">possiblepaths2050@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"></div><div>It would make for an interesting science fiction novel, to show a world where humans came exclusively from the Bonobo side. It could be a parallel worlds novel, with our violence shocking them, and their sexual abandon horrifying us...</div>
</blockquote><div><br>In principle, gorillas went their way first, then the Homo clade, chimps and bonobos diversified at a later stage, so strictly speaking a bonobo may be more a chimp than a human, but a human cannot be more one than the other...<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>