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Our Inner Ape

A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

By Frans De Waal

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| Paperback | 9781594481963

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From "one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior" (Desmond Morris) comes a look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our closest cousins. For nearly twenty years, Frans De Waal has studied both the famously aggressive chimpContinue

From "one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior" (Desmond Morris) comes a look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our closest cousins. For nearly twenty years, Frans De Waal has studied both the famously aggressive chimpanzee and the egalitarian, matriarchal bonobo, two species whose DNA is nearly identical to ours. The result is an engrossing narrative that reveals what their behavior can teach us about ourselves.

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  • Monkey business

    Our Inner Ape: The Best and Worst of Human Nature by Frans de Waal 300pp, Granta, £17.99 Apes are not just our kin, they are also capable of human kindness. A bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee at Twycross zoo is famous for gently rescuing a stunned starling ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 304 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1594481962
  • ISBN-13: 9781594481963
  • Publisher: Riverhead Trade
  • Pub date: Aug 01, 2006
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
  • In other languages: other languages 繁體書, 简体书
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