There are many advantages that come with living in groups for primates, and there are many views on them as well. Richard Wrangham believes that primates live in groups the way they do because it lets them defend access to valuable and limited resources (food). This view proves true since it is also true that larger groups defeat the smaller groups in confrontations over resources, but it does not take into account tradeoffs, explain social …
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…with the similarity in size and larger CC. Their social structure could be balanced, females being treated with the most respect, and males being in charge, but everyone does their share of the work. With tools even invalids can be productive, and it is certain that everyone had a role to play. There had to have been some sort of governing structure or democracy going on here. They must have had some kind of morals.