Is There a Young Boy or Girl Who Follows the Diet of a Father and Vice Versa?

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I think the same general diversity that we see in human society is probably also present in the primates. We don't have good systematic studies on that. But i describe in my book, for example, a female chimponsy who, from a very young age onwards, acted more like a male. I would not call her lesbian, because she was not sexually interested in females, or in males for that matter. And so i describe her as gente nonconforming individual, basically, ye tha those ce she could be trancef if she could talk.

Humans are related to all other species here on Earth, but some are closer relatives than others. Primates, a group that includes apes, monkeys, lemurs, and others besides ourselves, are our closest relatives, and they exhibit a wide variety of behaviors that we can easily recognize. Frans de Waal is a leading primatologist and ethologist who has long studied cognition and collective behaviors in chimps, bonobos, and other species. His work has established the presence of politics, morality, and empathy in primates. His new book is Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.

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Frans de Waal received his Ph.D. in biology from Utrecht University. He is currently Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Among his awards are the Knight of the order of the Netherlands Lion, the Galileo Prize, ASP Distinguished Primatologist, and the PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, not to mention an Ig Nobel Prize.

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