The Biochemistry of Status and the Function of Mood StatesBox 7.1:  The Evolutionary Origins of Pride and Shame

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Background: Scenes painted in black and ochre on the rock shelter wall at Gasulla, Castellon (Spanish Levant). On the left seven bowmen converge on a herd of wild boar and on the right there is a large deer painted upside down, presumably to show that it is dead. Click here.