2023-10-02 14:10:02
Why do we talk so little about Alpha females? Among our primate cousins: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, authority, power, cooperation, competition, filial ties and sexual behavior are much more shared than we imagine. (Rebroadcast from 09/27/22)
Let’s shed light on the thorny question of gender through the observation and study of our closest primate cousins: chimpanzees and bonobos. How do these great apes share (or not) power, domination, sexual behavior and filial ties? The mirror that our primate cousins hold up to us shakes all the coconut palms of our preconceived ideas, in one direction or the other…
Different: the kind seen by a primatologist : this is the title of the latest essay by our guest, the famous primatologist Frans de Waal, who sheds light via ethology on our most burning controversies on gender and sex…
With the primatologist Frans de Waal, for his new work Different, the kind seen by a primatologist, published by Éditions les Liens qui Libération.
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