This is our 20th Podcast Episode, in this article, "Primates Are Us", Dr. J. P. Linstroth explains various ideas related to our natural selves but also to the cultural origins of many concepts we take for granted. Who we are has as much to do with what we inherit as it does with our social environments. From analyzing the origins of our monotheistic religions, we know they arose in desert environments where other animals are scarce. Polytheistic religions are common where life is abundant. Our Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions developed in isolation from other non-human primates and thus also influenced our views about nature and it in relation to us. Significant here is this interplay between the biological and the social–the exclusion of either in our analysis being a significant omission. As t ...