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When primatologists observe chimpanzees, they take note of activities like fighting, playing, touching, and grooming.

And it turns out you can learn a lot about humans, we are primates after all, by observing the same behaviors in us.

Not grooming, but, you know, who was nice to who, who complimented, who, who talked to who,

who flirted with who, all those kinds of things.

Laura Jones, an anthropologist at Emory University and Kaiser Permanente.

The primates, her team studied, were surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and other staff

at three U.S. hospitals.

The researchers observed 200 surgeries while logging behaviors like cursing and cowering, stomping

or head shaking, joking and singing, complimenting or flirting. And they found that conflict in the

OR surged when male surgeons' teams were mostly male, or when female surgeons were with

mostly female teams. I would say it would be a no-brainer if we had found that all females

were cooperative, but that's not what we found. Instead, the highest levels of cooperation

occurred when a female surgeon had a male surgical team, and vice versa. Perhaps Jones says because those mixed teams

avoided male-male or female-female conflict. In fact, previous studies in primates, both human

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