Category: Ethology
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The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond The Gene
Link to review: The wisdom of Seinfeld.
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Kissing & the science of humanity
I approached Sheril Kirshenbaum’s The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us with some trepidation and excitement. The former is a consequence of my hypochondria and its associated germophobia. I have no aversion to kissing in my own life (apologies for divulging personal information), but I did have some worries about having to…
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Monkeys are more complicated than you’d think
Generous Leaders and Selfish Underdogs: Pro-Sociality in Despotic Macaques: Actively granting food to a companion is called pro-social behavior and is considered to be part of altruism. Recent findings show that some non-human primates behave pro-socially. However, pro-social behavior is not expected in despotic species, since the steep dominance hierarchy will hamper pro-sociality. We show…