Primate in example sentence

For most of our evolutionary history, human beings – and our primate ancestors – have lived in small groups, in which violence could be inflicted only in an up-close and personal way, by hitting, pushing, strangling, or using a stick or stone as a club.

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Now what I find fascinating about these examples is how they're actually tapping into our primate instincts.

That actually for a given body mass of a primate the metabolic rate was static.

Every primate group has one alpha male, one alpha female, not more than that, there's only one.

So what we find is that high-power alpha males in primate hierarchies have high testosterone and low cortisol, and powerful and effective leaders also have high testosterone and low cortisol.

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