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Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics

The Good Fight

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The Role of Sex and Gender in Primates

In extreme reading, what you just said would imply that therefore human notions of biological sex are overly simplistic. But I take it, that's not what you're saying. So what conclusions should we draw from these really institutional observations that you just make? I think sex is mostly binary, 99% or so the individuals are either male or female. And there's a small slice of individuals who is in between. Gender is of course a very different way of thinking about gender as a cultural construct.

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