Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are - Frans de Waal
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One of the world's foremost primatologists explores what our two closest relatives in the animal kingdom-the violent, power-hungry chimpanzee and the cooperative, empathetic bonobo-can tell us about the duality of our own human nature. We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? From a scientist and writer whom E. O. Wilson has called the world authority on primate social behavior comes a lively look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our two closest cousins in the ape family. For nearly twenty years, Frans de Waal has worked with both the famously aggressive chimpanzee and the lesser-known egalitarian, erotic, matriarchal bonobo, two species whose DNA is nearly identical to that of humans. De Waal brings his apes to life on every page of this book, letting their personalities, relationships, power str...
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2005Uitgever: New York, Riverhead274 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1573223123ISBN-13: 9781573223126Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2005, hardcover with dust jacket, good copy [Auteur: Waal, F. B. M. De] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Riverhead Books/ Penguin Group USA] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: Our Inner Ape / A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are]
