Like chimpanzees, humans may console victims of aggression out of empathy

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 13:02 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Like chimpanzees, humans may console their threatened peers out of empathy, according to a study published May 31, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard from the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), The Netherlands, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues.

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