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As Lewis sees it, power can come from physical dominance or what she calls ‘economic leverage’. This could be specialist knowledge of where to find the best fruiting trees, controlling access to unfertilized eggs or strategic alliances. The celebrated Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal, professor of primate behaviour at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, agrees that female power is underrated. I caught up with him while he was in London and he told me about the far-reaching influence of Mama, the alpha female of a colony of captive chimpanzees he studied in Arnhem, Netherlands.
