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Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboonsby Shirley C. StrumISBN 0226777561 (0-226-77756-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons'Book summary:In 1972, a young graduate student named Shirley Strum traveled to Kenya to study a troop of olive baboons (Papio anubis) nicknamed the Pumphouse Gang. Like our own ancestors, baboons had adapted to life on the African savannah, and Strum hoped that by observing baboon behavior, she could learn something about how early humans might have lived. Soon the baboons had won her heart as well as her mind, and Strum has been working with them ever since.[via]
Vividly written and filled with fascinating insights, Almost Human chronicles the first fifteen years of Strum's fieldwork with the Pumphouse Gang. From the first paragraph, the reader is drawn along with Strum into the world of the baboons, learning about the tragedies and triumphs of their daily livesand the lives of the scientists studying them. This edition includes a new introduction and epilogue that place Strum's research in the context of the current global conservation crisis and tell us what has happened to the Pumphouse Gang since the book was first published.More editions of Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons:
- Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons: ISBN 0393307085 (0-393-30708-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons: ISBN 0394547241 (0-394-54724-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons: ISBN 0226777561 (0-226-77756-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
- Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons: ISBN 0393307085 (0-393-30708-5)
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The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections by a Primatologistby Franz De WaalISBN 0465041760 (0-465-04176-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections by a Primatologist'Book summary:To watch apes dressed in human clothing and mimicking human manners--an old standby in films and television shows--can make some human viewers uncomfortable, writes the noted primatologist Frans de Waal. Somehow, by doing so, the apes are crossing some line in the sand, a line that speaks to issues of culture, which humans alone are presumed to have. But culture, in de Waal's estimation, does not mean using an oyster fork properly or attending smart gallery openings. Instead, it "means that knowledge and habits are acquired from others--often, but not always, the older generation." Culture implies communication and social organization, and in this, he notes, humans by no means have a monopoly. A sushi chef learns by acquiring knowledge and habits from more accomplished masters, but so do chimpanzees learn to wash bananas in jungle streams, and so do birds learn to break open mollusks on the rocks below them.
Closely examining anthropocentric theories of culture, de Waal counterposes the notion of anthropodenial, "the a priori rejection of shared characteristics between humans and animals when in fact they may exist." He takes issue with "selfish gene" theories of behavior, arguing spiritedly that there are better models for explaining why animals--and humans--do what they do. And, against Aristotle, he argues that humans are not the only political animals, if by politics we mean a social process "determining who gets what, when, and how." What animals and humans clearly share, he concludes, are societies in which stability is an impossibility--an observation that may disappoint utopians, but one that helps explain some of the world's peculiarities.
Perhaps no human alive knows more about the great apes than does Frans de Waal. With this book, he ably shows that he knows a great deal about humans, too. Students of biology, culture, and communication will find much food for thought in his pages. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Ape within Usby John Ramsay MacKinnonISBN 0030176263 (0-03-017626-3)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Apesby John WexoISBN 1888153504 (1-888153-50-4)
Hardcover, Zoobooks/Wildlife Education
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apes'Book summary:Picture a massive gorilla-a 350-pound chest-beater as strong as six men-tolerating all kinds of playful torment from his impish baby. Apes hug and kiss and shed tears just like people do. Discover other little-known human similarities-and important differences.
Zoobooks, the 59-book animal series - the "everything you wanted to know but didn't know who to ask" guide to the world's most fascinating creatures. Each exciting edition of Zoobooks is packed with current scientific facts, striking photography, beautiful illustrations and unique activities that teach children about animals and the habitats in which they live. With innovative publications and products, Wildlife Education, Ltd. has enriched the lives of children, parents, and educators nationwide for 20 years. All titles are offered in library-bound hardcover and soft-cover styles. Zoobooks, ideal for the knowledge-hungry 4-11 year old! [via]
Apes and Monkeysby John GrassyISBN 1561565989 (1-56156-598-9)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks
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Bonobo: The Forgotten Apeby Frans Lanting, F. B. M. De WaalISBN 0520205359 (0-520-20535-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape'Book summary:For Frans de Waal, man is not the only moral entity, as he made clear in his last book--Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. The author has long been intrigued by chimpanzee politics and mores, and now he has turned his human heart and scientific mind to a species science has tended to celebrate solely for its sex drive. Bonobos may look like chimps, but they are actually even closer to us--far more upright, physically, for a start. Furthermore, where chimpanzees hunt, fight, and politic like mad, bonobos are peaceful, often ambisexual, and matriarchal. (Of course, hyenas are matriarchal too, but that's another story ...) De Waal's collaborator, Frans Lanting, has been photographing these gentle creatures for some years and augments the primatologist's explorations and interviews with hundreds of superb color shots. The penultimate picture is of bonobos crossing a road while schoolchildren stand watching, a short distance away. If, as the truism goes, all books about animal behavior are ultimately about us, this exploration of the bonobo may be a step in the right direction. [via]
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Bonobo: The Forgotton Apeby F. B. M. De Waal, Frans LantingISBN 0520216512 (0-520-21651-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bonobo: The Forgotton Ape'Book summary:The bonobo, least known of the great apes, is a female-centered, egalitarian species that has been dubbed the 'make-love-not-war' primate by specialists. This book compares the bonobo with its better-known relative, the chimpanzee. It is suitable for those who are interested in primates, gender issues, and evolutionary psychology. [via]
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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apesby Frans De WaalISBN 0801863368 (0-8018-6336-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes: ISBN 0801858399 (0-8018-5839-9)
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The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behaviorby Jane GoodallISBN 0674116496 (0-674-11649-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Congoby Michael CrichtonISBN 1568491263 (1-56849-126-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Cousins: Our Primate Relativesby R. I. M. Dunbar, Louise BarrettISBN 0789471558 (0-7894-7155-8)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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The Dynamic Dance: Nonvocal Communication in African Great Apesby Barbara J. KingISBN 0674015150 (0-674-01515-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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El Origen De Las Especies/the Origin Of Speciesby Charles DarwinISBN 9871150121 (987-1150-12-1)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Eve and the Apesby Emily HahnISBN 1555841724 (1-55584-172-4)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Evolution of Primate Behaviorby Alison JollyISBN 0023611405 (0-02-361140-5)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man And Animalsby Charles DarwinISBN 1420924990 (1-4209-2499-0)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man And Animals'Book summary:"Even cows, when they frisk about from pleasure, throw up their tails in a ridiculous fashion." So writes Charles Darwin in his magnum opus on how humans and animals display such emotions as fear, anger, disdain, and pleasure; it is work that has in most respects been sustained by later scientific research. First published in 1872, Darwin's greatest work was never issued in quite the shape its author intended: bits and pieces were left out of subsequent printings, most of them released after Darwin's death, and later editors made additions to suit the intellectual fashion of their times. This definitive edition, heavily annotated, brings us the book that Darwin would have wanted, and it is essential to any naturalist's library. [via]
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Good Nightby Peggy RathmannISBN 0399224459 (0-399-22445-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Good Night, Gorillaby Peggy RathmannISBN 0399230033 (0-399-23003-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Gorillasby John WexoISBN 0937934283 (0-937934-28-3)
Softcover, Zoobooks/Wildlife Education
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Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Daysby Dawn Prince-Hughes, Anne HulseISBN 0816521514 (0-8165-2151-4)
Softcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
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Gorillas in the Mistby Dian FosseyISBN 061808360X (0-618-08360-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gorillas in the Mist'Book summary:In 1963, an occupational therapist from Kentucky, in uncertain health and spirits, traveled to central Africa in the quixotic hope of seeing a mountain gorilla in its natural habitat. Dian Fossey had read everything she could about the reclusive and much-feared animal, and she returned from her trip convinced that most of the books were wrong.
During her seven-week stay in Africa, Fossey had a chance encounter with the famed primatologists Mary and Louis Leakey, who encouraged her to follow her dream of living among the mountain gorillas and learning their ways. In 1967 she did just that, setting up a camp on the slopes of the 14,000-foot Virunga Volcanoes of Rwanda and studying four gorilla families there. Although it took them some time to accept Fossey's presence among them, she was immediately impressed by their peaceful nature and by their generous, guileless behavior--so unlike the images found in popular culture.
But, Fossey discovered, despite their peaceable way of life, the gorillas had many enemies in the form of poachers who hunted them for their hands, skins, and heads--ghastly remains sold to the tourist market. Much of Fossey's thoughtful but often rightly angry memoir Gorillas in the Mist is a well-reasoned plea for the protection of the gorillas and the suppression of the poachers' black market. That argument found a wide audience when her book was published in 1983, but Fossey's work remains unfinished: she was murdered, probably by those very poachers, in 1985, and today there are fewer than 650 mountain gorillas in the wild. To read Gorillas in the Mist is a first step for anyone concerned with their preservation, and that of other wild species everywhere. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Classic Study of the Urban Animalby Desmond MorrisISBN 1568361041 (1-56836-104-1)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Classic Study of the Urban Animal'Book summary:How does city life change the way we act? What accounts for the increasing prevalence of violence and anxiety in our world? In this new edition of his controversial 1969 bestseller, The Human Zoo, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris argues that many of the social instabilities we face are largely a product of the artificial, impersonal confines of our urban surroundings. Indeed, our behavior often startlingly resembles that of captive animals, and our developed and urbane environment seems not so much a concrete jungle as it does a human zoo. Animals do not normally exhibit stress, random violence, and erratic behavioruntil they are confined. Similarly, the human propensity toward antisocial and sociopathic behavior is intensified in todays cities. Morris argues that we are biologically still tribal and ill-equipped to thrive in the impersonal urban sprawl. As important and meaningful today as it was a quarter-century ago, The Human Zoo sounds an urgent warning and provides startling insight into our increasingly complex lives. [via]
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The Illustrated Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animalby Desmond MorrisISBN 0224022601 (0-224-02260-1)
Hardcover, J. Cape, 1986
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal'Book summary:a new edition of the world's most provocative best seller now with 56 fabulous full color photographs [via]
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In Praise of Primatesby Steve BloomISBN 3829015569 (3-8290-1556-9)
Hardcover, Konemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Praise of Primates'Book summary:Great picture book of various primate species [via]
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In the Shadow of Manby Jane GoodallISBN 0618056769 (0-618-05676-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Shadow of Man'Book summary:[via]World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodalls account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey suggested that a long-term study of chimpanzees in the wild might shed light on the behavior of our closest living relatives. Accompanied by only her mother and her African assistants, she set up camp in the remote Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania. For months the project seemed hopeless; out in the forest from dawn until dark, she had but fleeting glimpses of frightened animals. But gradually she won their trust and was able to record previously unknown behavior, such as the useand even the making of tools, until then believed to be an exclusive skill of man. As she came to know the chimps as individuals, she began to understand their complicated social hierarchy and observed many extraordinary behaviors, which have forever changed our understanding of the profound connection between humans and chimpanzees.In the Shadow of Man is one of the Western worlds great scientific achievements (Stephen Jay Gould) and a vivid, essential journey of discovery for each new generation of readers. 
In the Shadow of Manby Lawick-Goodall, Jane, Barones VanISBN 0395127262 (0-395-12726-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Introduction to the Primatesby Daris R. Swindler, Linda E. CurtisISBN 0295977043 (0-295-97704-3)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to the Primates'Book summary:Introduction to the Primates is a comprehensive but compact guide to the long evolutionary history of the world's prosimians, monkeys, and apes, and to the much shorter history of humankind's interactions with them, from our earliest recorded observations to the severe threats we now pose to their survival.
Daris Swindler provides a detailed description of the major primate groups and their environments, from the smallest lemurs of Madagascar to the gorillas of central Africa. He compares and contrasts the primate species, looking at each with a specific anatomical focus. The range of diversity emerges as the particular characteristics of the species becomes increasingly distinct. Swindler also considers primate behavior and its close connections with environment and evolutionary differences. His account of 65 million years of successful adaptation and evolution demonstrates the drama of paleontology as evidence accrues and gaps in the history of primate evolution gradually close.
"A succinct and highly readable exposition of the past and present members of the zoological Order Primates. The book invites the reader to appreciate the diversity of primates and the similarities between human and nonhuman primates that are a result of our shared evolutionary heritage." - Nina Jablonski, California Academy of Sciences [via]
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Jane Goodall, 40 Years at Gombe: A Tribute to Four Decades of Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservationby Jennifer LindseyISBN 1556709471 (1-55670-947-1)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mindby Roger Lewin, Sue Savage-RumbaughISBN 047115959X (0-471-15959-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The remarkable story of the "talking" ape who is proving animals can think
Though he cannot physically speak, Kanzi understands an impressive amount of spoken English and communicates by punching symbols on a special keyboard. This book tells Kanzi's incredible story and explores its intriguing ramifications.
SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH (Decatur, Georgia) is one of the world's leading ape-language researchers. ROGER LEWIN (Cambridge, Massachusetts) is the author of 12 books, including co-authorship of the best-selling Origins with Richard Leakey. [via]
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The Living World of Audubonby Roland C. ClementISBN 0448118319 (0-448-11831-9)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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The Naked Apeby Desmond MorrisISBN 0440362660 (0-440-36266-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked Ape'Book summary:"A startling view of man, stripped of the facade we try so hard to hide behind." In view of man's awesome creativity and resourcefulness, we may be inclined to regard him as descended from the angels, yet, in his brilliant study, Desmond Morris reminds us that man is relative to the apes--is in fact, the greatest primate of all. With knowledge gleaned from primate ethnology, zoologist Morris examines sex, child-rearing, exploratory habits, fighting, feeding, and much more to establish our surprising bonds to the animal kingdom and add substance to the discussion that has provoked controversy and debate the world over. Natural History Magazine praised The Naked Ape as "stimulating . . . thought-provoking . . . [Morris] has introduced some novel and challenging ideas and speculations." "He minces no words," said Harper's. "He lets off nothing in our basic relation to the animal kingdom to which we belong. . . He is always specific, startling, but logical." [via]
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The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animalby Desmond MorrisISBN 0385334303 (0-385-33430-3)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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The Naked Eye: Travels in Search of the Human Speciesby Desmond MorrisISBN 0091878675 (0-09-187867-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked Eye: Travels in Search of the Human Species'Book summary:The first time Morris has written about himself since his autobiography Animal Days (1979).
Desmond Morris wrote his autobiography Animal Days recounting his life up to 1967 when he published The Naked Ape, the world-famous bestseller which portrayed the human species in a way that caused enormous controversy at the time and broke many religious and sexual taboos. It was described by the Sunday Times as the sort of book that changes peoples lives. Since then, Desmond Morris has become one of the worlds authorities on human behaviour, writing numerous other bestsellers on the subject and is a familiar figure to millions of TV viewers for his series on human and animal behaviour.
In this new volume of autobiographical essays, he describes his travels and his observations of human beings and human behaviour in fascinating and often hilarious detail. It was these observations which provided the raw material for such remarkable books as Manwatching and The Human Sexes, and the films that have accompanied them. His travels have taken him from the cities of North America to Mediterranean islands and around the whole of Europe in search of material for Gestures, and to the Pacific and around Africa for The Human Race a total of some sixty countries throughout the world. The final chapter describes his recent journey around the world in ninety days. [via]More editions of The Naked Eye: Travels in Search of the Human Species:
Next of Kin: My Conversations With Chimpanzeesby Stephen Tukel Mills, Roger RoutsISBN 0380728222 (0-380-72822-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Areby Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills, Jane GoodallISBN 068814862X (0-688-14862-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Old World Monkeysby Ann ElwoodISBN 0937934690 (0-937934-69-0)
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On the Origin of Speciesby Charles DarwinISBN 1404322868 (1-4043-2286-8)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.
Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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On the Origin of Speciesby Joseph CarrollISBN 1551113376 (1-55111-337-6)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.
Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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On the Origin of Species: Appendix Dawrin's Original Manuscript Pagesby Charles DarwinISBN 1592242855 (1-59224-285-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert Darwin, George LevineISBN 1593080778 (1-59308-077-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Areby Frans De WaalISBN 1594481962 (1-59448-196-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are'Book summary:Power, sex, violence and kindness: these four broad-spectrum categories encompass much of human behavior, so it's only fitting that they're also the primary subject material for Frans de Waal's (The Ape and The Sushi Master) book Our Inner Ape. The few (but deeply detailed) chapters are a mesmerizing read that spans biology, child psychology, postmodern theorists and fundamental morality, using tales of stern chimps, and sexy bonobos to examine humans' place between them. In the process, he examines why we need to know our place in the world, how our body language communicates feelings, and where the roots of empathy lie in mammalian life.
De Waal's respect for both his readers and his research subjects come shining through in the simple clarity he uses when describing both the endless sex of bonobo apes and the heartrending violence occasionally present in chimp hierarchal structure. By illustrating his points with a mixture of straight-from-research experiences and jokes at the expense of modern politicians, he keeps his ideas compelling for anyone with a basic understanding of evolutionary science without drifting towards the academic drone that could be expected of by a researcher of his experience.
You won't find specific conclusions concerning human nature, but instead a gentle, almost rambling look at two primate species with vastly different social networks and how, perhaps, humanity can learn from each to our benefit. A few of de Waal's lovely duotone photos (My Family Album: 30 Years of Primate Photography grace the end of the book, featuring close-up shots of the folks he's been writing about--chimps like Yeroen, Nikkie and Mama, and bonobo Kuif and adopted daughter Roosje are downright thrilling to see after reading such interesting stories about their lives. Jill Lightner [via]
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Peacemaking among Primatesby Frans De WaalISBN 067465921X (0-674-65921-X)
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The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primatesby Noel Rowe, Russell A. MittermeierISBN 0964882515 (0-9648825-1-5)
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The Poison Oracleby Peter DickinsonISBN 0893406805 (0-89340-680-5)
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Primate Origins and Evolution: A Phylogenetic Reconstructionby R.D MartinISBN 069108565X (0-691-08565-X)
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Primate Paradigms: Sex Roles and Social Bondsby Linda Marie FediganISBN 0920792030 (0-920792-03-0)
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Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Scienceby Donna HarawayISBN 0415902940 (0-415-90294-0)
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A Primate's Memoirby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0743202414 (0-7432-0241-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Primate's Memoir'Book summary:Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and other popular books on animal and human behavior, decided early in life to become a primatologist, volunteering at the American Museum of Natural History and badgering his high school principal to let him study Swahili to prepare for travel in Africa. When he set out to conduct fieldwork as a young graduate student, though, Sapolsky found that life among a Kenyan baboon troop was markedly different from his earlier bookish studies. Among other things, he confesses, he had to become a master of shooting anesthetic darts into his subjects with a blowgun to take blood samples, a mastery that required him to become "a leering slinky silent quicksilver baboon terror." He also had to learn how to negotiate the complexities of baboon politics, endure the difficulties of life in the bush, and subsist on cases of canned mackerel and beans.
His memoir is, in the main, quite humorous, although Sapolsky flings a few darts along the way at the late activist Dian Fossey--who, he hints, may have indirectly caused the deaths of her beloved mountain gorillas by her unstable, irrational dealings with local people--and at local bureaucrats whose interests did not often coincide with those of Sapolsky's wild charges. It is also full of good information on primates and primatology, a subject whose practitioners, it seems, are constantly fighting to save species and ecosystems. "Every primatologist I know is losing that battle," he writes. "They make me think of someone whose unlikely job would be to collect snowflakes, to rush into a warm room and observe the unique pattern under a microscope before it melts and is never seen again." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboonsby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0743202473 (0-7432-0247-3)
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His memoir is, in the main, quite humorous, although Sapolsky flings a few darts along the way at the late activist Dian Fossey--who, he hints, may have indirectly caused the deaths of her beloved mountain gorillas by her unstable, irrational dealings with local people--and at local bureaucrats whose interests did not often coincide with those of Sapolsky's wild charges. It is also full of good information on primates and primatology, a subject whose practitioners, it seems, are constantly fighting to save species and ecosystems. "Every primatologist I know is losing that battle," he writes. "They make me think of someone whose unlikely job would be to collect snowflakes, to rush into a warm room and observe the unique pattern under a microscope before it melts and is never seen again." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Primates in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Bookby Benjamin B. Beck, Robert W. Shumaker, Gerry EllisISBN 1588341763 (1-58834-176-3)
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Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journeyby Phillip Berman, Jane GoodallISBN 0446676136 (0-446-67613-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey'Book summary:As a young woman, Jane Goodall was best known for her groundbreaking fieldwork with the chimpanzees of Gombe, Africa. Goodall's work has always been controversial, mostly because she broke the mold of research scientist by developing meaningful relationships with her "specimens" and honoring their lives as she would other humans.
Now at the age of 60, she continues to break the mold of scientist by revealing how her research and worldwide conservation institutes spring from her childhood callings and adult spiritual convictions. Reason for Hope is a smoothly written memoir that does not shy away from facing the realities of environmental destruction, animal abuse, and genocide. But Goodall shares her antidote to the poison of despair with specific examples of why she has not lost faith. For instance, she shares her spiritual epiphany during a visit to Auschwitz; her bravery in the face of chimpanzee imprisonment in medical laboratories; and devotes a whole chapter to individuals, corporations, and countries that are doing the right thing. But most of all Goodall provides a beautifully written plea for why everyone can and must find a reason for hope. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Reflections of Eden: My Years With the Orangutans of Borneoby Birute M. F. GaldikasISBN 0316301868 (0-316-30186-8)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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A Search for the Origins of Human Speech: Auditory and Vocal Functions of the Chimpanzeeby Shozo KojimaISBN 1876843470 (1-876843-47-0)
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Songs Of The Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autismby Dawn Prince-HughesISBN 1400082153 (1-4000-8215-3)
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In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment when, as a young woman, she entered the Seattle Zoo and immediately became fascinated with the gorillas.
Having suffered from a lifelong inability to relate to people in a meaningful way, Dawn was surprised to find herself irresistibly drawn to these great primates. By observing them and, later, working with them, she was finally able to emerge from her solitude and connect to living beings in a way she had never previously experienced.
Songs of the Gorilla Nation is more than a story of autism, it is a paean to all that is important in life. Dawn Prince-Hughess evocative story will undoubtedly have a lasting impact, forcing us, like the author herself, to rediscover and assess our own understanding of human emotion. [via]More editions of Songs Of The Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism:
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animalby Jared M. DiamondISBN 0060845503 (0-06-084550-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution And Future of the Human Animal'Book summary:Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight." The Third Chimpanzee is, in many ways, a prequel to Diamond's prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns examines "the fates of human societies," this work surveys the longer sweep of human evolution, from our origin as just another chimpanzee a few million years ago. Diamond writes:
It's obvious that humans are unlike all animals. It's also obvious that we're a species of big mammal down to the minutest details of our anatomy and our molecules. That contradiction is the most fascinating feature of the human species.
The chapters in The Third Chimpanzee on the oddities of human reproductive biology were later expanded in Why Is Sex Fun? Here, they're linked to Diamond's views of human psychology and history.
Diamond is officially a physiologist at UCLA medical school, but he's also one of the best birdwatchers in the world. The current scientific consensus that "primitive" humans created ecological catastrophes in the Pacific islands, Australia, and the New World owes a great deal to his fieldwork and insight. In Diamond's view, the current global ecological crisis isn't due to modern technology per se, but to basic weaknesses in human nature. But, he says, "I'm cautiously optimistic. If we will learn from our past that I have traced, our own future may yet prove brighter than that of the other two chimpanzees." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years With the Chimpanzees of Gombeby Jane GoodallISBN 0618056777 (0-618-05677-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us About Human Social Evolutionby Frans B. M. De WaalISBN 0674010043 (0-674-01004-3)
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It has been nearly fifteen years since a single volume addressed the issue of human evolution from a primate perspective, and in that time we have witnessed explosive growth in research on the subject. Tree of Origin gives us the latest news about bonobos, the "make love not war" apes who behave so dramatically unlike chimpanzees. We learn about the tool traditions and social customs that set each ape community apart. We see how DNA analysis is revolutionizing our understanding of paternity, intergroup migration, and reproductive success. And we confront intriguing discoveries about primate hunting behavior, politics, cognition, diet, and the evolution of language and intelligence that challenge claims of human uniqueness in new and subtle ways.
Tree of Origin provides the clearest glimpse yet of the apelike ancestor who left the forest and began the long journey toward modern humanity.
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Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africaby Farley MowatISBN 0446387207 (0-446-38720-7)
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Buenas Noches, Gorila / Goodnight Gorillaby Peggy Rathmann, Ma. Francisca MayobreISBN 9802572659 (980-257-265-9)
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El Origen De Las Especies/the Origin Of Speciesby Charles DarwinISBN 1583487778 (1-58348-777-8)
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Chimpansee-Politiek: Macht En Seks Bij Mensapenby F. B. M. De WaalISBN 9023004477 (90-230-0447-7)
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