Is equality an artificial concept, or do moral traits have a genetic component? Primatologist Frans de Waal belongs in the second camp; his TED talk, Moral Behaviour in Animals, lays out the case that the concept of fairness exists across species. Watch what happens when these two monkeys receive unequal pay for equal work.
[youtube width=”640″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg[/youtube]
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