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Frans de Waal: Gender, Apes, and Us

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Is There a Difference Between Males and Females in the Primates?

In the primate groups, since fatherhood is less well defined, young males look up at them and emulate their behavior. And this idea is always transferred to transe individuals so a trans girl, for who wo is born biologically as a boy and develops into a transe girl, se emulates individuals of the opposite sexo adult females. So i think self socialization is underestimated. In primates very highly, it's highly likely that they have the same thing going on.

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