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Aaron Sandel
Academic
Lead author and anthropologist from the University of Texas.
Notable Quotes
""Chimpanzees are sort of melodramatic," he said, explaining that following arguments there would ordinarily be "screaming and chasing" and then later, they would grooming and co-operating."View Story →
""I would caution against anyone calling this a civil war.""View Story →
""If relational dynamics alone can drive polarization and lethal conflict in chimps without language, ethnicity, or ideology, then in humans, those cultural markers might be secondary to something more basic.""View Story →
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