Dominance Quote by Kim Stanley Robinson

The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance…

— Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

— Frans de Waal

“We humans have a dual nature—we are selfish primates who long to be a part of something larger and nobler than ourselves.”

— Jonathan Haidt

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Everything is improved by the judicious application of primates.”

— Chris Roberson

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty…

— Dale Jamieson

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

— Herbert Spencer

“The ancient lizard mind lies below the mammalian mind, which lies below a primate mind, which is modified by a mind adapted to language,…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“The most fundamental, a major shift from the ape brand of sociality, was the human nuclear family, which gave all males a chance at…

— Nicholas Wade

“like the social instincts of chimps, those of humans were adapted only for small intimate groups. When the group grew too large, its social…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

“Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.”

— Bauvard