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nt the rest of her day clinging tightly to her infant.  She could not

gather as much food as she needed for herself and her baby.  She was

too preoccupied with protecting her offspring from an unforeseen

attack.  Her child wriggled impatiently in her arms.  Further research

suggested that it wanted to go off on its own and have a good time.

But this was one baby which would never have the freedom to run and

play.  It would never be able to wrestle and roll about with the children

of the more dominant females.  It would never experience that easy

social access which leads to self-confidence and a quick mind among

baboons.  Ultimately, it--like its mother before it--would live its adult

years on the bottom of the social pile.

The baboon's mother was forced to smother it overprotectively

simply to ensure that it survived.  For among baboons, the babies of

the dispossessed have an omnipresent mortal enemy: the females of the

tribe.31

Let's be blunt.  It is useless for women to blame violence on men.

And it would be futile for men to blame violence on women.  Violence

is built into both of us.  When Margaret Thatcher constructed a nuclear

navy, she was not behaving in a manner distinctly male, nor was she

behaving in a manner distinctly female.  She wasn't even obeying a set

of impulses that are uniquely human.  Thatcher, like Rome's Livia, was

in the grip of simple passions we share with gorillas and baboons,

passions implanted in the primordial layers of the triune brain.

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nt the rest of her day clinging tightly to her infant.  She could not

gather as much food as she needed for herself and her baby.  She was

too preoccupied with protecting her offspring from an unforeseen

attack.  Her child wriggled impatiently in her arms.  Further research

suggested that it wanted to go off on its own and have a good time.

But this was one baby which would never have the freedom to run and

play.  It would never be able to wrestle and roll about with the children

of the more dominant females.  It would never experience that easy

social access which leads to self-confidence and a quick mind among

baboons.  Ultimately, it--like its mother before it--would live its adult

years on the bottom of the social pile.

The baboon's mother was forced to smother it overprotectively

simply to ensure that it survived.  For among baboons, the babies of

the dispossessed have an omnipresent mortal enemy: the females of the

tribe.31

Let's be blunt.  It is useless for women to blame violence on men.

And it would be futile for men to blame violence on women.  Violence

is built into both of us.  When Margaret Thatcher constructed a nuclear

navy, she was not behaving in a manner distinctly male, nor was she

behaving in a manner distinctly female.  She wasn't even obeying a set

of impulses that are uniquely human.  Thatcher, like Rome's Livia, was

in the grip of simple passions we share with gorillas and baboons,

passions implanted in the primordial layers of the triune brain.