Animal Quote by Robert Sapolsky

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

— Jonathan Haidt

Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal.

— Robert Sapolsky

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

— Frans de Waal

The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like…

— Frans de Waal

Humans are just monkeys with feelings.

— Nikhil Saluja

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

We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

— Clay Shirky

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with…

— Frans de Waal

Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.

— Jane Goodall

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which…

— Diane Ackerman

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human…

— Colin Blakemore