PROBLEMAS ALTRUISTAS DARWINIANOS

in 1871 darwin mentioned that he would rather descent from a monkey than from -savages-. the monkey in question was a papio hamadryas baboon that, in brehm's account, saves an infant from a pack of dogs. the -savages- were the now disappeared fuegians, whom he visited in the beagle's voyage, in 1833. why darwin through he was a very good observer of animal behavior could not discern the social characteristics of the four hunter-gatherer human societies he knew in tierra del fuego? our aim in this work is to try to elucidate this dilemma.