Laurie Santos: 10 Questions for Laurie

(soft music) - Darwin, definitely.

Because he figured out all these things that were correct about the way the world works and Freud figured out all these things that aren't really true.

Jane Goodall.

She was the pioneer.

She did it first.

I would definitely be a bonobo.

Bonobos are kind of more of the hippie primate.

That's a secret.

No, very dangerous.

Beck's Loser, which begins with in the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.

Curious George.

All my monkey dreams evolve them escaping and doing terrible things.

The cutest monkey habit is actually a gesture called lip smacking.

And they do it when they're kind of feeling nice and happy.

(woman chattering) I scare my undergrads with that.