This Is the Dark Side of Our Closest Relative
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This Is the Dark Side of Our Closest Relative
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Chimpanzees share approximately ninety-eight point seven percent of our DNA and that proximity has made them endlessly fascinating and genuinely unsettling to study at close range. The behaviors that surface when researchers observe chimp communities over extended periods challenge the comfortable narrative of the peaceful primate in ways the scientific community spent decades reluctant to fully publish. Here is what the long-term field research has actually revealed about the species closest to our own.