How's this for messed up?

I'm reading this article in National Geographic Adventure called "Why the bonobos need a radio and other (unlikely) lessons from deepest Congo". It's about researching these apes called bonobos that are supposed to share 98% of human's DNA, they are supposed to be our closest relative (if you buy evolution). This researcher is interested because she thinks that maybe we are more like them, who are non-violent, deal with conflict by having lots of sex, and are matriarchal. Verses chimps who are very violent, often murdering other chimps, and are very patriarchal. A quote is "And I think on some level people can learn from them in that they are like us, or we are like the bonobo." She's essentially looking to find out if people are basically good (like the bonobo) or basically bad (like the chimps). Then later she is referring to a drug-crazed warlord who tortures his victims by putting them in oil drums in the equatorial sun, and how this warlord arrested her and was going to kill her, but came down off his high and let her go. So she says "I was lucky, but that's the risk of working in an environment where human beings slaughter each other without any mercy whatsoever."

So am I the only one that thinks she has the answer to her question about whether people are basically good or basically bad?