Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics
The Good Fight
Evolution and Biology
There's this old religious idea that humans are somehow special and our head is not just driven by our bodily instincts. We want to create the space which is safe from nature and safe from evolution, he says. And we adjust these Cartesian dualistic beings free to act as they wish in the world without any kind of input from biology. There's also a real resistance towards explanations that have to do with evolution more from a kind of more lefty or progressive perspective,. So how do you respond to that? Is it partially in complicating social narratives of something? I know you've worked on this where, you know, what sometimes written in newspapers about alpha males just isn't actually what you
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