How to Become an Alpha Male (in a chimpanzee tribe)

Anthony Galli
Sep 1, 2018 · 5 min read

I recently learned how to become the alpha male of a chimpanzee tribe. I know what you’re thinking, “That’s useful in our modern economy.”

I agree because chimpanzees are our closest living relatives where we share 98.4% DNA and so by investigating their primitive brains maybe it can give us a glimpse into our own underlying nature after we strip away our tools and neocortex.

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