Chimpanzee Politics

He practiced a long-term analysis of chimpanzee behavior at the Arnhem Zoo in the Netherlands to write this book. He argued that chimpanzees are social animals that perform highly political activities such as coalition, reputation management, and conditional altruism. Chimpanzees' social networks, like Homo sapiens, contain concepts of status, unity, unity, deception and reconciliation. The book concluded that human political activity "is likely to be part of an evolutionary legacy shared with our primate relatives."