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"A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them."
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A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them.
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. A new report, “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates,” catalogs the species closest to the brink. Compiled by more than 100 scientists and conservationists, it’s a stark warning: without urgent action, some of our closest […]

A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them. https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/a-new-report-lists-the-worlds-25-most-endangered-primate…

A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them.
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. A new report, “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates,” catalogs the species closest to the brink. Compiled by more than 100 scientists and conservationists, it’s a stark warning: without urgent action, some of our closest […]

Finance as Extended Biology: Reciprocity as the Cognitive Substrate of Financial Behavior
Egil Diau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00099 https://

Finance as Extended Biology: Reciprocity as the Cognitive Substrate of Financial Behavior
A central challenge in economics and artificial intelligence is explaining how financial behaviors-such as credit, insurance, and trade-emerge from decentralized social interaction. We argue that these functions are not institutionally engineered, but arise from a single behavioral substrate: reciprocity. Observed across primates and foundational to early human societies, reciprocity governed the exchange of goods, regulation of obligation, and maintenance of cooperation-without formal rules. T…