How Do Great Apes Go Wild? with Dr. Laura Simone Lewis

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Chimpanzees and bonobos know how to live it up. They hang out with their friends, they take self-care breaks, they eat fresh fruit, and when it’s raining they fashion umbrellas out of leaves. Dr. Laura Simone Lewis is back on the show this week to tell us all about the social lives of these dynamic individuals, who happen to share 98% of our DNA. From their favorite juice flavors to their equivalent of Netflix and chill—this episode’s got it all. Missed Dr. Lewis’s first episode on the show, all about our great ape family tree? Check it out here. Dr. Laura Simone Lewis is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Psychology department at UC Berkeley. She received her PhD from Harvard through the department of Human Evolutionary Biology last year. She studies how social cognition has evolved in our closest living primate cousins, chimpanzees and bonobos! You can follow Dr. Lewis on Twitter @LauraSimoneLew. Want to support our chimpanzee and bonobo cousins? Here are some groups to follow: Lola Ya Bonobo in DRC Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenya Jane Goodall Institute World Wildlife Fund Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn; we’ll be updating it soon with more releases! Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Chris McClure, and Erin McKeon. 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. This is Jonathan Banness. Every week I interview an amazing expert
0:09.9	about something that I'm curious about, Bahoney. Sometimes those experts come back and this
0:13.4	is one of my most favorite experts ever. Welcome back to the show, Dr. Laura Simone Lewis.
0:19.0	We're going to learn all about chimpanzees and bonobos. It's giving you like graduate
0:23.2	201 if you did not listen to our great episode like a police get it together. I, by the way,
0:28.2	Laura, how are you? Hi, it's so nice to see you. I'm doing really well. I've been excited
0:32.8	about this for a long time. So I'm so happy to be back. I'm so excited that you're here.
0:37.0	If you're ever like at school, like will someone ever be like a Dr. Lewis? Yeah, I get called
0:41.8	Dr. Lewis a lot now, which is really fun. I love calling you Dr. Lewis. Dr. Lewis
0:48.2	darling. I'm obsessed. So these earrings came to Salay. Today they are so major. I wore
0:53.8	them just for you, Jonathan. I call them my rainbow drops. They're like rainbow drops.
1:00.1	Between these and Dr. Elizabeth rules earrings, we're going to have to do a social media
1:04.7	bit about just amazing earrings out of our guests. I'm obsessed. Okay. So, but will you
1:10.8	tell people what you do, what you're a doctor of and where you find your day in and day
1:16.9	out work? Absolutely, definitely. Hello, my name is Dr. Laura Simone Lewis. I study chimpanzees
1:26.5	and bonobos. I specifically study their social cognition. So how they think about their social
1:31.9	environments. I received my PhD last year from Harvard University in the Department of Human
1:38.5	Evolutionary Biology. And I'm now a UC president's postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and
1:46.7	California in the psychology department. So I span both psychology. I study social psychology
1:52.9	and biological anthropology because I study the social psychology of our closest living
1:58.6	relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos. So I'm very interdisciplinary. And I'm so excited
2:03.6	to talk with you today all about chimps and bonobos. Oh my gosh, we are too. We can't even
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