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Tag Archives: athiest
Bonobos & Apatheists
I just finished Frans de Waal’s book “The Bonobo & the Atheist”. The premise is that we derive our ‘community concern’, empathetic, altruistic & cooperative nature from our mammal & primate heritage, not from human-imagined religion. Uh, duh. An enthusiastic storyteller … Continue reading
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Tagged apatheist, athiest, bonobo, chimpanzee, empathy, Frans de Waal, Frans Lanting, hieronymus bosch, human evolution, human primate, mother
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