Dr Frans de Waal Unboxing | What Apes Teach Us About Gender & Human Behaviour
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Is There a Positive Side to Violence?
I think for guys, it's within our nature to somehow fight with one another. And I don't see a positive side to the violent fighting. So you have two kinds of fighting. You have real fights between brothers where you really try to beat up on each other. And then there's play fighting which is something that the primate males do all the time. In all human studies that I know boys do more of it than girls. It's one of the reasons that boys and girls usually don't play together.
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