Hello Helix you quoted:
The African apes - whose genes are ninety-eight to ninety-nine percent identical to ours - go about their lives as social animals, cooperating in the living of life, entirely without the benefit of clergy and without the commandments of Exodus, Leviticus, or Deuteronomy. It is further cheering to learn that sociobiologists have even observed altruistic behavior among troops of baboons. More than once, in troops attacked by leopards, aged, post reproduction-age males have been observed to linger at the rear of the escaping troop and to engage the leopard in what often amounts to a suicidal fight. As the old male delays the leopard's pursuit by sacrificing his very life, the females and young escape and live to fulfill their several destinies. The heroism which we see acted out, from time to time, by our fellow men and women, is far older than their religions. Long before the gods were created by the fear-filled minds of our less courageous ancestors, heroism and acts of self-sacrificing love existed. They did not require a supernatural excuse then, nor do they require one now.
So in the same context
We can take an animal and a human and disect them on a table and when cut open you will find blood and guts correct? Lets take art (something you are familiar with) With this theory above, a painting done by my dog with a paintbrush tied to his tail will be worth just as much as a Renoir or a Rembrandt. Lets disect them ok? Both on canvas, both on frames, both painted with paint so they must be of the same value correct?
aged, post reproduction-age males have been observed to linger at the rear of the escaping troop
A key word here is
Aged is it possible that the aged are slower? and in turn fights because it is being attacked?
The painting concept is something I read a while ago and cannot find the original author of it nor is it word for word but it fits what I want to say