Fantasies of a critic who doesn't read



Paul Crowley wrote:

> The allow their politics to influence (in
> fact to dominate) their 'science'. They
> invent an image of 'peaceful bonobos';
> they ignore the fearsome aggression of
> chimps, and that of their own species,
> wishing that all human history would
> simply disappear

Ah, to be young and Crowley-like, able to assert your fantasies and
generalizations, never fearing any actual information might contradict
your prejudices because you're a dolt who doesn't keep up with the
literature, claiming to know what articles say without reading them,
and instead invents a parody of a field. I guess the ignorance of
chimp aggression is why Wrangham wrote a series of articles and popular
book about it.

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