The social behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos: empirical evidence and shifting assumptions

摘要: As our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos have been widely used as models of the behavior early hominids. In recent years, information on social ecology has come to light, many interspecific comparisons made. Chimpanzees characterized in terms their intercommunity warfare, meat eating, infanticide, cannibalism, male status‐striving, dominance over females. Bonobos, meanwhile, portrayed “Make love, not war” ape, by female power‐sharing, a lack aggression between either individuals or groups, richly elaborated sexual that occurs without constraint narrow window fertility, use sex for communicative purposes. This paper evaluates evidence this dichotomy considers reasons contrasting portrayals two great apes developed. While there are marked differences these species, I argue they more similar beha...