Cultured Hands

Cultured Hands, originally uploaded by schlechterwolf.

This detail from a sculpture in the New Budongo Forest Chimpanzee Centre at Edinburgh Zoo depicts for me the meeting of the hands of the killer apes, the tool making apes, the trading apes, the comforting apes, the cultured apes - chimpanzee and man.

This image sums up the core of my research into the evolutionary origins of law like behaviours in the linkages between the two species - Pan sapiens and Homo troglodytes!