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This project explores the evolutionary origins of friendship by studying social bonds in macaques. It aims to understand the environmental factors influencing these relationships and whether the cognitive skills related to friendship are unique to humans, shedding light on social isolation and its implications.
Friendship is crucial for human health and well-being.
People who are socially isolated have a greater risk of heart disease than heavy smokers, drinkers, and the obese, and halting social isolations ongoing rise is a growing priority for public health and political policy.
But coming to grips with our need for friends and the consequences we face in their absence requires we not only look at how friendship is manifested in contemporary societies but to its origins in our evolutionary past.
Yet,…
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