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Published online 30 June 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050627-11
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Monkey business
Can primate studies really tell us anything useful about child abuse in human families? Michael Hopkin thinks not, and says we should spare the monkeys the pain.
Apes and monkeys, our fellow primates, hold up a mirror to much of our own biology. There is much to be learned from studying how they behave in the arenas of mating, tribalism and family life.
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