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Dr. John Mitani, professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and recipient of the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, joins School of War to discuss the violent chimpanzee civil war he documented among the Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda. What caused one of the world's largest chimpanzee communities to turn on itself? What does chimpanzee warfare reveal about the origins of human conflict? And what separates humans from our closest living relatives?
02:39 - How Dr. Mitani became an ape researcher
04:02 - Why chimpanzees?
05:13 - Humans' closest living relatives
08:38 - The Ngogo chimpanzees
09:31 - The chimpanzee civil war begins
13:35 - Living among wild chimpanzees
17:09 - Territorial patrols and warfare
22:34 - Why the chimpanzee community split
26:26 - How chimpanzees fight
29:14 - The strategy behind chimp warfare
31:24 - Why full stomachs lead to war
33:10 - Land, food, and reproduction
37:27 - Infanticide and the mystery of female survival
39:26 - When civil war becomes permanent
41:13 - What chimpanzees teach us about human nature
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