Our Inner Ape

Our Inner Ape

By Frans de Waal

Pages

312

Rating

4.18

Year

2005

BiologyPsychologyAnthropologyScienceAnimalsNonfiction

Description

A fascinating look at the most provocative aspects of human nature—power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality—through our closest cousins in the ape family.

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.

Endorsements

"the world authority on primate social behavior" — E. O. Wilson

"one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior" — Desmond Morris

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