Unlike Humans, Bonobos Shun Helpers And Befriend The Bullies
Given a choice, bonobos tend to prefer people who act like jerks and dominate. That's very different than humans, who even as infants consistently prefer people who are cooperative and not mean.
by Nell Greenfieldboyce
Jan 04, 2018
2 minutes
Even very young babies can tell the difference between someone who's helpful and someone who's mean — and lab studies show that babies consistently prefer the helpers.
But one of humans' closest relatives — the bonobo — makes a different choice, preferring to cozy up to the meanies.
That's according to experiments Thursday in the journal , by scientists who wanted to explore the evolutionary origins of humans' unusually
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