There are significant differences between human versus animal social interaction. While it may first appear that we duplicate the social order of monkeys, the truth is human interaction is like all animal interactions - based upon similar traits and characteristics and not social order.

Friendship, love and romance are almost always the byproduct of shared interests, desires and even appearances. Many husband/wives are attracted to a male/female version or mirror reflection of themselves. In the animal kingdom merely being of the same species is usually enough and pairing is based more upon how the environment throws the animals together when there fertility/reproductive drives are at a peak.

The nuances of human selection are enhanced by our ability to think and reason. Our leadership is based upon not the strongest and biggest, but more often the perceived wisest. The hereditary rulership of Kings and Queens is almost always destroyed by human groups - because it is inferior, unfair and thus counterproductive. While mankind is animalistic, it is far more advanced in its cognitive interactions, leading to the breakdown of old and inferior wisdom to be replaced by newer thought and advanced reasoning.

Humans are also infinitely more adaptable to change than are monkeys or the monkey family. Humans can interact with others much more intelligently than can monkeys. While clearly an innate appreciation of familiarity exists, the human consciousness is much better equipped to completely abandon its former family and a change of environment than are animals so capable. In that sense, humans are individuals first and foremost and their membership of a group is secondary. In the animal kingdom the reverse is true - they are members of a group first and foremost and their individuality is secondary. There are no loner gorillas or self-sufficient monkeys at least none, not in captivity.

So while humans often seem to mimic the heirarchies of monkey groups, they differ dramatically in their ability to completely discard their present social environment, structure and create new orders and new groups.

This is due to the altogether superior capability of humans for combining past and present data to form new understandings and to act upon them. Animals can only use imprinting of repetitive living patterns and personal experiences and are very slow to change, unable to rise above such limited thinking mechanisms. They persist to be instinct driven when intelligent thought would long ago have changed a behavior or type of action.

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