Chimpanzees, More Than Any Other Living Creature,

Chimpanzees Are Incredibly Intelligent. They Can Learn More Than 400 Signs Of American Sign Language. They Have Memories For Spatial Distribution, Like Numbers On A Tv Screen, Way Better Than Ours. You Come Onto The Emotions: Happiness, Sadness, Fear, And Despair - All The Things For Which I Was Accused Of Being Anthropomorphic When I Ascribed Them To Chimpanzees.

It May Sound Trite, But Young People Really Are The Future.

Your Life Matters. You Can't Live Through A Day Without Making An Impact On The World. And What's Most Important Is To Think About The Impact Of Your Actions On The World Around You.

I Get Upset When So Many People Say There Are All Sorts Of Problems In Africa And India Where They Have These Big Families. They Don't Realize That 10 Children In Rural Tanzania Will Use Less Natural Resources In A Year Than One Middle Class American Child. People Don't Think Like That.

You May Not Believe In Evolution, And That Is All Right. How We Humans Came To Be The Way We Are Is Far Less Important Than How We Should Act Now To Get Out Of The Mess We Have Made For Ourselves.