>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > De Waal's work with bonobo chimps has facinating information about
> > primate cultures. His work Peacemaking Among Primates is a great
> book
> > for finding the roots of many social customs in our ancient past.
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067465921X/103-7153482-6367068?
> v=glance&n=283155
>
> Aside from the fact that their societies are
> matriarchal, and that they would apparently
> rather make love than war, of course.
>
> I'd guess you cited the bonobo as evidence against
> my speculative suggestion that humans may intuit
> "orderliness" and that this intuition may be a
> source of their sense of ethics.
>
> However, bonobos are among the very few species of
> non-human animals who have passed the "mirror test,"
> which is thought to be a sign of self-consciousness.
>
> So I suggest that they may also have a primitive
> intuitive capacity that can sense "orderliness."
>
>
I've seen housecats who apparently passed the mirror test. I've also seen house cats look
both ways before crossing busy streets, and if they see a car coming, they step back on
the sidewalk.
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