Is There an Alteration Through the LifeSpan of an Individual?

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There is a difference, of course, in the sense that males detest lower-ranking males. And so older males are usually friendlier and easier going than younger males. For example, i've known many high ranking chimponse males who, once they retired, so to speak, still hung around in the groupd became very popular grooming partners for everyone. But what they also do is they play a lot more with kids. They they er tickle and play and chase with them, and they have the greatest fun. Something that as younger males, they never did, because they they were much too preoccupied with other things in their life. I think there is a veryinteresting arc

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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