#2-Summary of reading; THE APE IN THE OFFICE

 New research suggests business leaders and corporate employees may use conflict and cooperation in ways similar to their primate relatives.
 Science writer and a specialist in animal behavior Richard Conniff suggests that the ways in which humans manage conflict and cooperation are just like primates. He sees similarities in the ways humans and primates use social networks and hierarchies to assert and gain status in their respective groups. He also points out that both humans and apes generally prefer to cooperate with each other.
 According to Conniff, both primates and humans are essentially social creatures. They thrive in groups and are normally cooperative and helpful.
Also people and primates use similar social networking strategies to get ahead in life.
 To both humans and primates, conflict and aggressive behavior do not gain long-term success for either species.
 Conniff concludes that employees who cooperate in the office and primates who interact collaboratively in the wild find themselves happier, more effective, and more likely to survive.


-opinion:
 This reading tell us about similarities in humans and primates. Especially talk about humans' social relationship and apes' primate relatives.

This reading only compared humans with apes. But I think these behavior patterns has shown all other animal species.

I usually watch animal documentaries and program. So I learned that almost all the animal species have hierarchies and order in their own way. I bet animal species that don't have their own order are don't exist.

Why the writer compare only human being and apes? Just because they look similar to each other? I wonder that.

-interesting points:

  Comparing people and primates is excited my curiosity. Because I like animals and I always wonder about relation between humans and primates.

As I read this, I learned that humans and primates have similar behavior patterns in social community. Before I read this, I thought that the two species are completely different from each other. Because humans and primates have obvious differences in intelligence. But I was wrong.

-like/dislike:

 This is easy to read because the reading is divided into four sections. I like this structure.

But I think the contents of section2(COOPERATION VS. CONFLICT) and section3(THE VALUE OF NETWORKING) overlap. They don't need to be divided into two sections.