The late anthropologist Robert Sussman found that even primates, some of the most aggressive mammals, spend less than 1 percent of their day fighting or otherwise competing. In his article “Why Humans and Other Primates Cooperate” in the September 2014 issue of Scientific American, the primatologist ...

Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important roles in the livelihoods, cultures, and religions of many societies and offer unique insights into human evolution, biology, behavior, and the threat of emerging diseases. They are an essential component of tropical biodiversity, contributing ...

He cites the work of the late anthropologist Robert Sussman, who found that even primates, some of the most aggressive mammals, spend less than one ... These differences among primates matter, says Richard Wrangham, a biological anthropologist at Harvard known for his study of the evolution of ...

In The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea, Robert Sussman, professor of anthropology at the Washington University, St. Louis, argues that race has never has been biological. But “even though biological races do not exist, the concept of race obviously is still a reality, as is ...

Most biologists, geneticists, and anthropologists have discarded the concept of race. This was, first, because it ... How do anthropologists think about different groups of humans? ... As was said earlier by anthropologist Livingstone (1962) among humans: “there are no races, there are only clines.” As a result ...

... Louis anthropologist Robert W. Sussman, PhD, in his new book, “The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea.” “The book offers readers an opportunity to better understand where modern prejudices come from,” said Sussman, professor of physical anthropology in Arts & Sciences.

This was a summary of the findings of an international panel of anthropologists, geneticists, sociologists, and psychologists. A great deal ... One day in the 1980s, I sat in the front row in my first undergraduate anthropology class, eager to learn more about this bizarre and fascinating species I was born into.

But some anthropologists have resisted this interpretation, insisting instead that today's chimps are aggressive only because they are endangered by human ... “I am surprised that [the study] was accepted for publication,” says Robert Sussman, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, who ...

These are questions that Robert W. Sussman, PhD, a professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, explored Feb. 15 as he addressed the 2013 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston — one of the world's largest ...

But this view simply doesn't fit with scientific facts, write researchers featured in the new book Origins of Altruism and Cooperation (Springer, 2011), edited by Robert W. Sussman, PhD, and C. Robert Cloninger, MD. The book's authors argue that humans are naturally cooperative, altruistic and social, only ...

Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, addressed those questions and more in his talk “A Comparative Overview of Primate Social Organization” during the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Feb. 15 in Chicago.

Robert W. Sussman presented on the theory of Man the Hunted during “The Origin and Nature of Human Sociality” at 8:30 a.m. Feb. ... In his latest book, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis goes against the prevailing view and argues that primates, including early humans, evolved not as ...