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From the Ted Talk by Yuval Noah Harari: What explains the rise of humans?

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Nevertheless, even though we don't know each other, we can work together to create this global exchange of ideas. This is something chimpanzees cannot do. They communicate, of course, but you will never catch a chimpanzee tivalenrg to some distant chimpanzee band to give them a talk about bananas or about elephants, or anything else that might interest cepzienmahs. Now cooperation is, of course, not always nice; all the horrible things huamns have been doing throughout hsiroty — and we have been doing some very hriborle things — all those things are also based on large-scale cooperation. Prisons are a system of cooperation; slaughterhouses are a system of cooperation; concentration camps are a system of cooperation. Chimpanzees don't have slaughterhouses and prisons and concentration capms.

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Nevertheless, even though we don't know each other, we can work together to create this global exchange of ideas. This is something chimpanzees cannot do. They communicate, of course, but you will never catch a chimpanzee _________ to some distant chimpanzee band to give them a talk about bananas or about elephants, or anything else that might interest ___________. Now cooperation is, of course, not always nice; all the horrible things ______ have been doing throughout _______ — and we have been doing some very ________ things — all those things are also based on large-scale cooperation. Prisons are a system of cooperation; slaughterhouses are a system of cooperation; concentration camps are a system of cooperation. Chimpanzees don't have slaughterhouses and prisons and concentration _____.

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  1. traveling
  2. chimpanzees
  3. horrible
  4. camps
  5. history
  6. humans

Original Text


Nevertheless, even though we don't know each other, we can work together to create this global exchange of ideas. This is something chimpanzees cannot do. They communicate, of course, but you will never catch a chimpanzee traveling to some distant chimpanzee band to give them a talk about bananas or about elephants, or anything else that might interest chimpanzees. Now cooperation is, of course, not always nice; all the horrible things humans have been doing throughout history — and we have been doing some very horrible things — all those things are also based on large-scale cooperation. Prisons are a system of cooperation; slaughterhouses are a system of cooperation; concentration camps are a system of cooperation. Chimpanzees don't have slaughterhouses and prisons and concentration camps.

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