Primatologist Frans de Waal on ‘gender’: “Human is the only monkey that has a problem with conspecifics that are ‘different'”

What can we learn from chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest relatives, when it comes to gender? The world’s foremost primatologist Frans de Waal (73) wrote a book about it: “Monkeys don’t stick labels. Intolerance towards individuals who are ‘different’? Never seen it myself, never heard of it.”

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