More specifically: examples of other primates acquiring an item not for the intrinsic value the item has, but because it will enable them to get something else from someone else at a later time (THAT is money)
I’ve read summaries and I find the thesis ass-backward.
I’d rather look at evidence of proto-economies in our primate cousins, like the monkeys in Bali that hold tourists’ stuff ransom for food: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/14/balis-thieving-monkeys-seek-bigger-ransoms-for-high-value-swag-study
Or these monkeys that learned to use money and began paying for sex with it: https://www.zmescience.com/research/how-scientists-tught-monkeys-the-concept-of-money-not-long-after-the-first-prostitute-monkey-appeared/
Both examples of money usage and functional economies among non-human primates with no evidence of any debtor relationship
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