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Frans de Waal: Gender, Apes, and Us

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Is Female Sexuality an Interest of Man or an Obligation of Women?

In a group of monkeys, you are going to be sure that the alpha male has most of the offspring. If we test them, as we started doing in the 19 eighties and nineties, we started to test paternity. And so now we have a lot of evidence that female sexuality is much more pro active and adventurous than people had assumed. So ideas about female sexuality are rapidly changing at the moment.

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