Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. (Clay Shirky)

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Clay Shirky

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