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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes

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In this revised edition, de Waal expands and updates his story of the Arnhem colony of chimpanzees. De Waal reminds readers through his account of the chimps' sexual rivalries and coalitions, and intelligent rather than instinctual actions, that the roots of politics are older than humanity.
Paperback, 235 pages
Published April 10th 2000 by Johns Hopkins University Press (first published 1982)
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كنت اعلم مسبقاً ان للحيوانات وخاصة الثدييات بنية نفسية معقدة
لم أكن أعلم انها قريبة لتلك الدرجة من بنيتنا النفسية

الكتاب عبارة عن ملاحظة دقيقة لمستعمرة من الشمبانزي تعيش في حديقة حيوان, وعبر الملاحظة المستمرة لفترة زمنية طويلة تصل لخمس سنوات شهدت تغير الذكر المسيطر عدة مرات. وكانت نتيجة البحث في منتهي الغرابة,
"لويت" أحد الذكور القوية في المستعمرة استطاع التحالف مع "نيكي" وقاما سوياً بإستخدام تكتيك محدد, ف "لويت" يستطيع منفرداً أن يتغلب علي "يروين" الذكر المسيطر وقتها, لكنه لا يستطيع أن يتغلب علي

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Frans de Waal has been named one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People. The author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory Universitys Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. ...more

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