Why do you spend more time with your colleague next door than the one down the hall? As a founding scholar of primate social behaviour, the fifteenth-century philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli might have been able to tell you. Today's primatologists are still fascinated by the evolutionary roots of power, sex and politics in human and non-human primates — surprising parallels emerge that may explain facets of our behaviour and codes governing our society.
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