Behavior Quote by Jane Goodall

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a…

— Jane Goodall

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our…

— Michael Shermer

“it’s human behavior, human social behavior, and in many cases abnormal human social behavior. And it is indeed a mess, a subject involving brain…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

— Robert Sapolsky

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

— Frans de Waal

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

— Clay Shirky

We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know…

— Alison Jolly

“Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for more complex…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

— Jane Goodall

Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative…

— Jane Goodall