And see if you think these two ideas could be said to apply to contemporary U.S. culture. Or perhaps people say that marital fidelity is very important, but three quarters of the population is involved in extramarital sexual affairs. It is tempting to use the behavior of nonhuman animals, particularly of primates, our closest nonhuman relatives, as models for human behavior. Anthropologists, who are used to thinking of humans as part of the animal continuum, are especially given to this kind of comparison, and it often yields productive results. But beware of using nonhuman models uncritically.
Humans are certainly animals, but they are very specialized animals.
Those baboons and chimpanzees behave as they do because these behaviors are genetically encoded , while the humans behave as they do because they have learned culturally appropriate behaviors. The behaviors and social structures are analogous, but what produces them is dramatically different.