Primatology is an interesting topic which can help humans understand their evolution and creation of human body by understanding and studying how their mammals relative and non- human primates evolve. In this week’s readings and videos, we focus on various traits and characteristics showcase understood about non-human primates, furthermore learning about different ones from the phylogenetic trees when represents human evolution from various mammals and compare and contrasting divergent relatives, for example chimpanzees and spider monkeys. I want to start with the series of videos regarding primate behavior by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, titled what does it mean to be human. The Museum has four different videos, each describes a similar trait of humans and chimps along with how has evolution influence and disparate the trait in humans. Language and symbol, and tool usage are two traits comparison was interesting to me, while I was aware that chimps have these traits what was attractive how their adaption of languages furthermore learning, adapting and creating different languages and symbols unique to a community. I was even more surprised by chimps ability to learn and use sign language, while in humans this trait is more complex a person can adapt and speak any language they want but what duffers them is their ability to read and write in those symbols, which helps humans with imagination, creativity, illustration and concise communication. Now a days with technology aiding us with the usage of tools and helping create more tools is unlike what chimps do, in their phase of tools they were limited to nature and it provides tools, majority of their tools were used for their lifestyle, consisting of gathering and making food, survive and expansion. I think these two traits has evolved the most, more so the tools one because if consider how far humans have come from using natural tools, to metal to plastic and using those to creation more complex tools to use for convoluted tasks. Secondly the article called “what is war good for ask a chimpanzee” , which discusses dark and aggressive traits carried by non-primates and humans, in the article they describe an incident between a group of chimpanzees and how they brutally kill the other chimp. All of the separation and control of one’s land, they also presented a similar story about the spider monkey with the same outcome, all of which are similar to fission-fusion society dynamics humans shared with one another. While evolution has given human more brain power and aiding trait to control that behavior, we also have more complex culture and more things to fight over for example, civil wars, world wars, police brutally, protests and smaller fights between siblings over ownerships of toys and friends over where to eat, etc. By studying all of this and many more traits, biology and behavior of non-primates, we can study the change in human evolution, variations and traits that have significant impact on human life. While not advised, when visiting a zoo, humans come cross the chimpanzee exhibit do we wonder how have we evolved from our relative primates because that one place begin, while they might have limited activities one can look at them and see the biological similarities and differences. I would acknowledge Dr. Jane Goodall, because without her and many other primatologist and anthropologist we wouldn’t have information about human evolution and our shared traits with non-primates.