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Biological Anthropology Professor Zarin Machanda reads an excerpt from “The Struggle for Existence,” which is in chapter 3 of Charles Darwin’s On the Origins of Species. Darwin's book explains how humans - doubts, anxieties, existential crises and all - are not so different from primates. Why is this such an upsetting idea? Zarin works as a primatologist studying chimpanzees in Uganda in the Kibale National Park. She tells us that there is so much about animals and ecology and plants that we have yet to understand; In one of her team’s reports, they found evidence of “culture” in our closest primate relatives. https://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2009/10/26/new-evidence-of-culture-in-wild-chimpanzees Produced by Jenna Fleischer, Bobby Familiar and Shirley Wang