Male chimpene hunt monkeys, which is a very complex task. They certainly catch more monkeys when they work together than when they work alone. So it's very important for co operation to have sharing going on at the end. And that's an important lesson, i would say, for human society as well. If you don't have equity in human society, if there's some some guys who take everything, that's going to undermine the co operativeness of the society. That's going tor its going to create tensions. Tensions like the french revolution. You know, it's goni nire tensions that could be bad,. and it's gong to undermine co operation.
Humans are related to all other species here on Earth, but some are closer relatives than others. Primates, a group that includes apes, monkeys, lemurs, and others besides ourselves, are our closest relatives, and they exhibit a wide variety of behaviors that we can easily recognize. Frans de Waal is a leading primatologist and ethologist who has long studied cognition and collective behaviors in chimps, bonobos, and other species. His work has established the presence of politics, morality, and empathy in primates. His new book is Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.
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Frans de Waal received his Ph.D. in biology from Utrecht University. He is currently Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Among his awards are the Knight of the order of the Netherlands Lion, the Galileo Prize, ASP Distinguished Primatologist, and the PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, not to mention an Ig Nobel Prize.
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