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Frans de Waal: Gender, Apes, and Us

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

CHAPTER

Primates

Young females are very interested in infants, or something that they can substitute for an infant. They also collect rocks and wooden logs and hold them like an infant on their back,. Sometimes they build a nest for it. And if you look at human studies, girls are typically more ine ed in infants and dolls than boys are. It has to do with the enormous amount of knowledge that females need in order to become competent mothers.

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