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Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics

The Good Fight

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Why Alpha Males Are Not Bad Leaders

"Good alpha males, they do much more than being the boss of the group. They keep the peace," he says. "We have a tendency from all day's struggle for life to depict nature as a place of competition where only bad things happen" But that's really not the nature that I know." He adds: We are sort of reducing nature by saying that.

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