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“Frans de Waal is a primatologist who has worked amongst primates all his life, and knows a huge amount about their behaviour. He takes us through all the behaviours which we humans tend to obsess over in children—are boys being forced to hold guns? Are girls being forced into pretty pink dresses?—and also the whole business about finding a mate, how young females and young males behave, sex for enjoyment, sex for reproduction. All of these things are happening in this ape community. It’s incredibly interesting. The argument running through it is that it’s almost arrogant of human beings to think that they have their own special social construct…de Waal explains that the behaviour associated with gender is essentially a primate phenomenon, not a human one.” Read more...
The Best Popular Science Books of 2022: The Royal Society Book Prize
