274. Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum
The Michael Shermer Show
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Why Do We Die?
In the present society, i dont if you've noticed, people mock paternity leave. And for that reason, i find it important to point out that in the primates, in anchipotes and penobos, males have clearly a nurturing capacity. Even these males, who normally don't do much in this regard, they have careing tendencies that come out at such a moment. I call it he potential. The human, the human species is different because we evolve nuclear families. One of the reasons we populate the earth with eight billion people is because male involvement has allowed us to reduce the interbirth interval from five to six years,. What it is in chimps and benobos, to three
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