The Lawrence Jacobsen Library
DVD 0014 2004 The Ape so human!

DVD 0014 2004 The Ape so human!
Films for the Humanities and Sciences [DVD; col., sd.; 41 min.: 2004]

Sequences from historic experiments by Allen and Beatrix Gardner, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, and other primatologists, plus footage shot in the wild, provide compelling support for the thesis that chimps and bonobos are highly evolved indeed. Demonstrations of cognition, self-awareness, memory retention, language use, social behavior, mating practices, and perhaps even a sense of good and evil reveal species remarkably kindred to Homo sapiens. The anatomical basis for apes’ inability to articulate speech, despite having a Broca’s area, is also discussed.