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A Tasty Looking Moon And Sharing Caring Chimpanzees

Wow in the World

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The Importance of Putting Others First

The scientists call this idea group augmentation, which is just a fancy way of saying that chimps know that if they have to sacrifice themselves to protect the whole group, then everyone else in the group is better off too. And so what does it mean for people who still find it kind of hard to share or play fair or to be nice? Well, I really don't know what that means and it's safe to say that we all have these moments. But when it comes to putting others first, it doesn't hurt to ask ourselves the question, what would a chimp do? Or more specifically, what would I do? Yeah, she's my North Star.

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