First Fridays Science Discussion | Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles

Amy Parish is a biological anthropologist, primatologist, and Darwinian feminist. For the last twenty years she has been studying the world's captive population of bonobos, who are among the closest living relatives of humans. The social system of the Bonobo is unusual in many respects: females form real and meaningful bonds in the absence of kinship, females attack and dominate males, and all possible age and gender combinations participate in sexual interactions.