(From The Primate Diaries)

annafdd linked to this article in her own LJ, and now I'm linking to it too, because it's worth reading. It's an article about aggression in primates and what it means for human behaviour, written by a "field" ("savannah"?) primatologist.

What makes it really good, to me, is that he isn't talking about what we are programmed for by evolution, as too many people do when they talk about primate behaviour (including primatologists). The article is about how our evolutionary programming is not all that relevant really. I only quote the last sentence in the (long) article:

Anyone who says, "No, it is beyond our nature," knows too little about primates, including ourselves.

(And I'm recommending it despite the fact that I had to get to page 5 before it told me something I didn't know. It's got good stuff if you've never read an article about primate behaviour before, and also if you've read a lot :-))