Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science

Junk-Food Monkeys

TV-PG
S1 • E2    30m
What happens when nonhuman primates get to eat like Westernized humans? And what does it say about the costs—and surprising benefits—of our diets? Find out the answers in this lecture, which focuses on a fascinating study of East African baboons who abandoned their natural diet to gorge on garbage from a local tourist lodge.

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