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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.
The idea goes back to the pioneering work of Kinji Imanishi, who in 1952 proposed that if individuals learn from one another, their behavior may over time grow different from that of individuals in other groups of the same species, thus creating a characteristic culture (reviewed by de Waal 2001).
Even when, at the end of the experiment, both species were separated, the rhesus monkeys still showed three times more reconciliation and grooming behaviors after fights than typical of their kind (de Waal and Johanowicz 1993).
As the primatologist Frans de Waal has observed, male chimps "seem to live in a hierarchical world with replaceable coalition partners and a single permanent goal: power."
1999; de Waal 2001; Hirata et al.