Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World

By Dario Maestripieri

Judged through inhabitants measurement and distribution, homo sapiens are essentially the main winning primates. a detailed moment, even if, will be rhesus macaques, who've tailored to—and thrived in—such various environments as mountain forests, dry grasslands, and concrete sprawl. Scientists have spent numerous hours learning those opportunistic monkeys, yet rhesus macaques have lengthy been overshadowed within the public eye by way of the nice apes, who, as a result of their better intelligence, are obviously assumed to have extra to educate us, either approximately different primates and approximately people as well.

Dario Maestripieri thinks it really is excessive time we shelve that misperception, and with Macachiavellian Intelligence he supplies rhesus macaques their rightful flip within the highlight. The made of greater than 20 years learning those interesting creatures, Macachiavellian Intelligence caricatures a society that's as a lot human as monkey, with hierarchies and gear struggles that will provoke Machiavelli himself. High-status macaques, for example, hold their rank via deft makes use of of violence and manipulation, whereas altruism is sort of unknown and relationships are forever topic to the tough legislation of the marketplace. all through this eye-opening account, Maestripieri weds his thorough wisdom of macaque habit to his abiding fascination with human society and motivations. the result's a publication not like the other, one who attracts on economics up to evolutionary biology, politics up to primatology.

Rife with unforeseen connections and peppered with interesting anecdotes, Macachiavellian Intelligence has as a lot to educate us approximately people because it does approximately macaques, providing a wry, rational, and fully brilliant view of our humanity as noticeable throughout the monkey within the mirror.

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