Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics
The Good Fight
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The Biggest Mistake Human Beings Make
People make assumptions about how psychology works that could easily be debunked by studying chimpanzees, bonobos and other kinds of species. For example, the chimpanzee is a dulce when they're 16. They learn a lot of things in their lifetime before they are adults. And we know that there's a lot of cultural habits that they have. So if you look at the other primates, you see also culture. If you look at humans, you see more culture than biology.
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