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Wright is no doubt familiar with the wars of the chimpanzees at Gombe, which are much better interpreted as fights over territory than fights over females.
Robert Wright replies: Anyone who doubts that male chimpanzees spend lots of time fighting over females should read Frans de Waal's book Chimpanzee Politics . Though the chimp colony de Waal studied was not in a purely natural setting, as were the chimps at Gombe studied by Jane Goodall, de Waal, for that very reason, got a clearer look at daily life within a colony than Goodall did.
And, actually, Goodall's own data, as synthesized in her magnum opus The Chimpanzees of Gombe , also support the idea that males fight over access to fertile females.
We conducted the study in four states: Abia, Gombe, Kano, and Oyo.