# Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes

> Book report number four

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**Published on:** 2024-03-26
**Categories:** literature, book report, frans de waal, chimpanzee politics: power and sex among apes
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## Content

Prompt "Chimpanzee Politics"We are all political animals by nature. In Chimpanzee Politics, Frans de Waal speculates on the nature of humanity by observing ape societies in captivity. I’m humbled to learn that certain cognitive capabilities humans possess are also documented in other primates like ourselves. One of my takeaways is that power tends to concentrate. For example, the alpha stands in the center of a concentric circle of hierarchies, with a mesh network of chimps dynamically shifting the center of power. When we include other parameters such as age and sex, the community that resembles ours becomes uncanny. As humans are the current evolutionary result of this chaotic progress of time, I speculate that cryptocurrencies are the next value-creating way forward to prosperity.

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