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Comment on YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf"

Yeah but bonobos are close to chimpanzees and humans too yet they have totally different culture than chimpanzees.

In fact, bonobos used to be a subspecies of chimpanzees but because that nonviolent culture, they’ve become their own species.

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ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
chimps = tribal proto cavemen

bonobos = sex loving hippies

I, for one, would much rather be on the bonobo group

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twelvefloatinghands@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ah yes, but have you considered the gargantuan confirmation bias of anyone willing to map debunked wolf social dynamics onto humans?

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- orichalcum00@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes but you implied that even if there’s no alpha male in wolves, there’s alpha male in chimps and while we can’t apply wolf’s power dynamic to humans, we can with chimps because they’re a closer species to us. I wanted to point out that there’s another close relatives of us and chimps (the bonobos) who are not actually violent so we still can’t justify male violence on humans because we find it in chimps.
  
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creditCrazy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Those kinds of animals have always kinda fascinated me with how it just makes you wonder if there’s a element of genomes when it comes to your personality

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- justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No idea about personality traits, but there have been studies about what kind of human behavior, especially facial expressions, might be “pre programmed” in our genes. For example, rolling your eyes when you’re frustrated with someone, or raising your eyebrows when you are surprised - that’s something even most blind people do instinctively, despite never having seen it / never learned it from others.
  
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