1. What Does It Mean to Be Human?
Looking at Bonobos

2. One day during class, when asked to give a definition of ‘Man,’ Plato claimed that man was a bipedal animal with no fur or feathers.
Maybe this is what he imagined.

3. The next day his student Diogenes came back to class with a plucked chicken and said, “Here is Plato’s man.”

4. Diogenes was pointing out the difficulty in defining how humans are difficult from animals.

5. Humans are animals that . . .
Pair work
Come up with as many definitions of humans as you can using the form:
Humans are animals that . . .

6. We are now going to watch a short video on Bononobos
We are now going to watch a short video on Bononobos. Your job is to take notes and then write a comparison paragraph on the extraordinary ways in which Bonobos are similar to humans.

7. hard-wired in the brain
But first here are some terms you will need:
walking bipedal
egalitarian society
causal thought
hard-wired in the brain