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Is There a Parallel in Chimps Society?
Some research on queen bees has suggested that that's much more of a response to inequality than a cause of inequality. So it's not that women leaders necessarily want to operate this way, but they feel like they have to do it in order to get and then maintain their position. I wondered if there is a parallel in chimps society as well. They don't sort of, as far as I can understand, they just do what their nature tells them to do. And a female behaves like a female. We had one female who was sterile. She never produced an infant; she behaved much more like a male. But yet at the same time, she had female characteristics and she adopted a