GETTING CURIOUS | Who Are The Fab Five Of The Great Ape Family? with Dr. Laura Simone Lewis

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Gorillas. Orangutans. Bonobos. Chimpanzees. Humans. Can you name a more iconic Fab Five? This week, Dr. Laura Simone Lewis joins Jonathan for an episode all about our beautiful primate family tree! Listen in to learn how we’re related, what makes each species unique, and why we need to step up conservation efforts for our closest living relatives on the planet. Dr. Laura Simone Lewis is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her PhD from Harvard in the department of Human Evolutionary Biology. Laura studies how social cognition has evolved in chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans. Besides hanging out with great apes, she loves swimming in the ocean, making pottery, and going on solo travel adventures around the world. You can follow Dr. Lewis on Twitter @LauraSimoneLew. Here's a link to the chart on human evolutionary pathways. And here's a link to the great ape family tree, with a photo of Jonathan at the center! We have so much more ground to cover with Dr. Lewis, and we’re already planning a follow-up episode about social cognition in chimpanzees and bonobos. If you have a question for Dr. Lewis, leave us a voicemail or text message at (917) 960-2980, or share your message with us at jonathanvanness.com. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:08.5	On today's episode, I'm joined by Laura Simone Lewis, where I ask her, how does it feel to be a great ape?
0:15.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. Last June we recorded our incredible if we do say so ourselves
0:21.8	Pride in nature series.
0:23.2	It was so exciting to do and when we did it we got to speak to
0:26.9	Elliot Trafer about queer behavior in the animal kingdom.
0:29.7	And then we got to talk a little bit about great apes and and Bonobos, but it really cracked open the Faberge egg that is my curiosity about Grey Apes.
0:38.9	And so in walks Dr. Laura Simone Lewis who researches how social cognition has evolved in
0:46.1	chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans. She earned her PhD from where?
0:50.8	Harvard last year and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the
0:55.1	University of California Berkeley. Okay first of all that resume it just gave me
1:00.1	chills on my queer triceps. How are you Dr Laura Simone Lewis?
1:04.0	Hello, hello, hello, I'm so happy to be here. I'm really excited.
1:09.0	Thank you so much for having me. I'm honestly so excited to talk about great apes with you.
1:13.0	Oh my God, me to you and also just this smile, your earrings, your
1:16.3	fucking stunning, your hair, like you were just like, I didn't know you were a doctor and a model,
1:20.6	like someone get this doctor doctor a modeling contract yesterday.
1:24.0	Thank you so much.
1:26.0	You are literally studying.
1:27.2	I cannot see it.
1:27.8	Okay, but what I wanted to know was,
1:30.4	what is it like to be a great ape
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