I found this clip on the Seed magazine's website (http://www.seedmagazine.com). The clip shows a conversation between Chomsky and Trivers. Chomsky, the famous (and more famous now, after Venezuela's President Chávez speech at the U.N.) linguistics professor at MIT, talks with R. Trivers, the evolutionist professor from Rutgers University.
The conversation mainly deals with the behavior of organisms. They go into the U.S. - Middle East conflict (this had to happen with Chomsky at the table) and how similar events are judged differently according to the perspective. Then, they go into animal reactions in situations like these.
I found really interesting how Trivers describes the behavior of wasps and other organisms when dealing with oppression and abuse of power. Can the reaction from people all around the world (including Oaxaca) can be attributed to our intrinsic human nature? I don't know, but anyway... if you have 5 minutes to spare, maybe you will find this interesting too.
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