Complex gorilla societies shed light on early roots of human social evolution

Gorillas have a far more complex social structure than previously realized, and a new study has discovered many parallels between human societies and gorilla families. Years worth of careful monitoring of gorillas in the Republic of Congo provided researchers from the University of Cambridge with a better understanding of the complicated social systems of gorillas.  The researchers published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.  The results of the study indicate that social systems in humans didn’t evolve separately but that the roots of …