Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics
The Good Fight
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What Can We Learn From the Behavior of Non-Human Primates?
In bonobos the females are in charge, the females are dominant over the males collectively. And so it's interesting for us as humans if we contemplate our evolutionary history,. people always focus on the chimpanzee and especially anthropologists are very happy with the chimpanzee. They have a very different sort of social organization, a very different kind of behavior. The purpose show is that peaceful intergroup relationships are also possible.
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