Humans’ Wounds Heal Much More Slowly Than Other Mammals’
Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko Matsumoto-Oda, an evolutionary biologist and primatologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan, had a front-row seat to the violence between these monkeys, especially the males. “I was struck by how frequently they sustained injuries,” she said, “and, even more, by how rapidly they recovered — even from…