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‘Games Primates Play’ by Dario Maestripieri and ‘Darwin’s Devices’ by John Long

Studies of primates and robotic fish offer clues about how life developed and why we behave as we do

By Troy Jollimore

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  April 01, 2012

In “Games Primates Play’’ Dario Maestripieri, Professor at the University of Chicago and the author of the cleverly titled Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Monkeys and Humans Have Conquered the World, attempts to use our understanding of the behavior of monkeys and other primates to better understand human behavior.

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