Power Dynamics Challenged

New research this week contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more nuanced power dynamics in the relationships of our close relatives.

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“For a long time we have had a binary view of this issue: we thought that a species was either dominated by males or females — and that this was a fixed trait,” said Elise Huchard, a primatologist at the University of Montpellier in France.

“Recently, this idea has been challenged by studies showing that the truth is much more complicated,” said the lead author of a new study published in the journal PNAS.