Jul
10
2009
Hippie chimps
All animal societies – and also human societies — can be essentially reduced to the organizational dynamic of one of two kinds of monkey: a chimpanzee or a bonobo, known as a dwarf chimpanzee, a variety derived from the other branch of the chimp genetic tree. Common-or-garden chimpanzees order themselves into a dominant hierarchy, with […]
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