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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (1982)

January 1st, 1982

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The first edition of Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by a much broader audience of politicians, business leaders, and social psychologists for its remarkable insights into very basic human needs and behaviors.

This new edition...reaffirms the complex bond between humans and their closest living relatives. As we watch the chimpanzees of Arnhem behave in ways we recognize from Machiavelli (and from the nightly news), de Waal reminds us again that the roots of politics are older than humanity.

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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes   (1982)
War kills and maims people. It is immoral to kill and maim people. War is immoral.

Linus Pauling (1901 to 1994) American academic, 1954 Nobel laureate in chemistry, 1962 Nobel peace laureate.