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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Lettersby Jane Goodall, Dale PetersonISBN 0395854040 (0-395-85404-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters'Book summary:Africa may not always have been in Jane Goodall's blood, but animals were there right from the start: the list of recipients in what one hopes is only the first volume of her letters includes Dido the dog and Pickles the cat. And this is no flight of editorial fantasy. Goodall always accorded these members of her "darlingest family" their proper place alongside such correspondents as her mother, her father, her best friend, and her mentor, Louis Leakey (a.k.a. FFF, Foster Fairy Father). Africa in My Blood opens with 7-year-old Valerie Jane's encounters with various canines (real and porcelain) as well as signs of incipient naturalism--she has found "a ded rook he died of cold" and is caretaking a "catepiler." In the same communiqué, she also notes that her toy chimp has a new dress. Goodall would later prefer her primates au naturel but would continue to balance her urge for living taxonomy with love and empathy.
Culled from more than 16,000 letters, this collection will inspire Goodall adepts and those coming upon her for the first time. Her "autobiography in letters" restores this icon to full, even frivolous, humanity. It also recalls a lost era of inspired amateurism. When she went off to Nairobi at 23 in the spring of 1957, Goodall had no formal scientific training. Yet within weeks she had met Leakey and was soon working with him, not to mention rebuffing his advances, though she assures her mother that "he's much too fond of me for any monkey business."
Meanwhile, they had already discussed monkey business of a higher sort. "There is the vaguest possible chance that little me," Goodall wrote, "may have the chance to go right out into the wilds of the Northern Frontier for two or 3 months to study a strange tribe of chimpanzees who may be a new species, or sub-species. That is too heavenly to even think about." By the summer of 1960, Goodall was installed at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve (which she soon termed Chimpland). And over the next year, she made four key discoveries, if not more, and was proving herself the zoological equal of such masters as George Schaller, having documented her subjects eating meat as well as using tools with ease.
Africa in My Blood reminds us that Goodall was once a controversial rather than hallowed figure, her methodology viewed with suspicion and condescension. And as many of us happily vegetate in front of televised slices of animal life, her awareness of her privileged position puts things in perspective. In early 1961, Goodall recounts a complex ritual and then asks her family: "Can you begin to imagine how I felt? The only human ever to have witnessed such a display, in all its primitive, fantastic wonder?"
Because Goodall has written so elegantly and incisively on chimpanzee behavior in, for instance, In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window, some readers might initially be tempted to gloss over her descriptions of such animals as the venerable David Greybeard and expert towel thief William and concentrate on her own persona--teasing, hyper-enthusiastic, and absolutely determined. When her project is threatened in 1963, she implores FFF: "You would fall head over heels in love with all my darlings--never, never think that I will let anything happen to them through what I am doing. I KNOW it is right. I KNOW that I can work the Reserve the way it must. I KNOW that I shall come back here time and time again until the problems that remain are hardly worth mentioning." Africa in My Blood makes it clear that, as Jane Goodall has long stressed, human and ape cannot be separated. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters The Early Yearsby Jane GoodallISBN 0618127356 (0-618-12735-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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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:
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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 in the Corner Office: Understanding the Office Beast in All of Usby Richard ConniffISBN 140005219X (1-4000-5219-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Apes, Language, and the Human Mindby Talbot J. Taylor, E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Stuart G. ShankerISBN 019514712X (0-19-514712-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apes, Language, and the Human Mind'Book summary:Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human. At the forefront of this research, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh recently has achieved a scientific breakthrough of impressive proportions. Her work with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has led to Kanzi's acquisition of linguistic and cognitive skills similar to those of a two and a half year-old human child.
Apes, Language, and the Human Mind skillfully combines a fascinating narrative of the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research's broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. The first part of the book provides a detailed, personal account of Kanzi's infancy, youth, and upbringing, while the second part addresses the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues raised by the Kanzi research. The authors discuss the challenge to the foundations of modern cognitive science presented by the Kanzi research; the methods by which we represent and evaluate the abilities of both primates and humans; and the implications which ape language research has for the study of the evolution of human language. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind, and will be important reading for all those working in the fields of primatology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive and developmental psychology. [via]More editions of Apes, Language, and the Human Mind:
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Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolutionby Carole JahmeISBN 1569472955 (1-56947-295-5)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauty and the Beasts: Women, Ape, and Evolution'Book summary:Animal magnetism . . . or a disturbance in the field?
What is it with female primatologists and their chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas? The sheer number of women in this field is startling, as are the dangers they risk pursuing their beloved subjects. Fiercely dedicated and devoted, they go to remarkable lengths to conduct their studies and to protect their great apes from poachers, revolutions, and human contamination.
It is an impressive array of scientists: Jane Goodall, of course, and Dian Fossey (who was actually killed in the field), and less celebrated women, like Mary Leakey, Shirley McGreal, Biruté Galdikas, and others, who also braved everything from civil war to enraged simians with fangs bared. Their intriguing stories are a monument to forty years of dauntless scientific endeavor. But their ineffable longing for the company of their primordial cousins, their intense identification with these primates, is an intriguing theme that runs through their professional lives at a depth that can only be described at times as intimate and mysterious. [via]
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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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Brutal Kinshipby Michael Nichols, Jane GoodallISBN 0893818062 (0-89381-806-2)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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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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A Dark Place in the Jungleby Linda SpaldingISBN 1580051014 (1-58005-101-4)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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The Deluge and the Ark: A Journey into Primate Worldsby Dale PetersonISBN 0380711990 (0-380-71199-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Education of Kokoby Francine Patterson, Eugene LindenISBN 0030635519 (0-03-063551-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Evolution of Primate Behaviorby Alison JollyISBN 0023611405 (0-02-361140-5)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animalsby F. B. M. De WaalISBN 0674356616 (0-674-35661-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals'Book summary:In Good Natured Frans de Waal, ethologist and primatologist, asks us to reconsider human morality in light of moral aspects that can be identified in animals. Within the complex negotiations of human society, a moral action may involve thoughts and feelings of guilt, reciprocity, obligation, expectations, rules, or community concern. De Waal finds these aspects of morality prevalent in other animal societies, mostly primate, and suggests that the two philosophical camps supporting nature and nurture may have to be disbanded in order to adequately understand human morality. A theoretician, de Waal is meticulous in his research, cautious not to extrapolate too much from his findings, and logically sound in his arguments. He also writes with precision and a flair for the dramatic, carrying readers along with graceful ease and vivid examples. [via]
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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]
The Great Apes: Between Two Worldsby Michael NicholsISBN 0870449486 (0-87044-948-6)
Hardcover, Natl Geographic Society
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How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Speciesby Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. SeyfarthISBN 0226102467 (0-226-10246-7)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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Human Origins: The Story Of Our Speciesby Yves Coppens, Nicolas Buchet, Philippe DagneauxISBN 1844300951 (1-84430-095-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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In Praise of Primatesby Steve BloomISBN 3829015569 (3-8290-1556-9)
Hardcover, Konemann
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In Quest of the Sacred Baboon: A Scientist's Journeyby Hans KummerISBN 069104838X (0-691-04838-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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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)
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Intimate Behavior: A Zoologist's Classic Study of Human Intimacyby Desmond MorrisISBN 1568361637 (1-56836-163-7)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Introduction to Primate Behaviorby Nancy E. CollingeISBN 0840385692 (0-8403-8569-2)
Softcover, Kendall Hunt Pub Co
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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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Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproductionby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0674510585 (0-674-51058-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction'Book summary:Sexual combat is not a monopoly of the human species. As Sarah Blaffer Hrdy argues in this spellbinding book, war between male and female animals has deep roots in evolutionary history. Her account of family life among hanuman langurs--the black-faced, gray monkeys inhabiting much of the Indian subcontinent--is written with force, wit, and, at times, sorrow.
Male hanumans, in pursuit of genetic success, routinely kill babies sired by their competitors. The mothers of endangered infants counter with various strategems to deceive the males and prevent destruction of their own offspring. Competition and selfishness are dominant themes of langur society. Competition among males for access to females, competition among females for access to food resources, and disregard by one female for the well-being of another's infant--these are some very common examples. Yet there are also moments of heroic self-sacrifice, as when an elderly female rushes to defend her troop and its babies from an invading, infancticidal male.
The Langurs of Abu is the first book to analyze behavior of wild primates from the standpoint of both sexes. It is also a poignant and sophisticated exploration of primate behavior patterns from a feminist point of view. This book may inspire controversy; it will certainly be read with pleasure by anyone interested in animal behavior.
Richly illustrated with photographs, seven in full color.
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The Lemurs' Legacy: The Evolution of Power, Sex, and Loveby Robert Jay RussellISBN 0874777143 (0-87477-714-3)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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The Mentality of Apesby Wolfgang K”OhlerISBN 0871401088 (0-87140-108-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Monkey Paintingby Thierry LenainISBN 1861890036 (1-86189-003-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Monkey Portraitsby Jill Greenberg, Paul WeitzISBN 0821257552 (0-8212-5755-2)
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Monkeys & Apes: Based on the Television Series, Wild Wild World of Animalsby P.H. Napier, John Russell Napier, Time-Life TelevisionISBN 0913948039 (0-913948-03-9)
Hardcover, Time-Life Films
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Next of Kin: My Conversations With Chimpanzeesby Stephen Tukel Mills, Roger RoutsISBN 0380728222 (0-380-72822-2)
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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)
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The Nonhuman Primatesby Phyllis Dolhinow, Augustin FuentesISBN 1559349743 (1-55934-974-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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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)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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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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Patterns of Primate Behaviorby Claud A. BramblettISBN 0881337439 (0-88133-743-9)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Peacemaking among Primatesby Frans De WaalISBN 067465921X (0-674-65921-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primatesby Noel Rowe, Russell A. MittermeierISBN 0964882515 (0-9648825-1-5)
Softcover, Pogonias Pr
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Primate Adaptation and Evolutionby John FleggleISBN 0122603419 (0-12-260341-9)
Hardcover, Academic Pr
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Primate Behavior: An Exercise Workbookby J.D. PatersonISBN 0881336181 (0-88133-618-1)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Primate Behavioral Ecologyby Karen B. Strier, Karen StrierISBN 0205200192 (0-205-20019-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Primate Behavioral Ecology'Book summary:Primate Behavioral Ecology, described as "an engaging, cutting-edge exposition," incorporates exciting new discoveries in its introduction to the field and its applications of behavioral ecology to primate conservation. Like no other on the market, this comprehensive book integrates the basics of evolutionary and ecological approaches and new noninvasive molecular and hormonal techniques to the study of primate behavior with up-to-date coverage of how different primates behave. Examples are drawn from the "classic" primate field studies and more recent studies on previously neglected species, illustrating the vast behavioral variation that we now know exists and the gaps in our knowledge that future studies will fill. For anyone interested in anthropology, psychology, biology, and zoology, specifically related to primate behavior. [via]
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Primate Diversityby Dean Falk, John ByramISBN 0393974286 (0-393-97428-6)
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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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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons'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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Primates in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Bookby Benjamin B. Beck, Robert W. Shumaker, Gerry EllisISBN 1588341763 (1-58834-176-3)
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Primates : The Amazing World of Lemurs, Monkeys, and Apesby Barbara Sleeper, Art WolfeISBN 0811814343 (0-8118-1434-3)
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Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journeyby Phillip Berman, Jane GoodallISBN 0446676136 (0-446-67613-6)
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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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Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzeesby Beatrix T. Gardner, R. Allen Gardener, Thomas E. Van CantfortISBN 0887069665 (0-88706-966-5)
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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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› Find signed collectible books: 'Through a Window: My Thirty Years With the Champanzees of Gombe'Book summary:The sequel to In the Shadow of Man, this book relates the story of Jane Goodall's thirty years with the chimpanzees of Gombe. [via]
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Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and Peopleby Dale Peterson, Jane GoodallISBN 0820322067 (0-8203-2206-7)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People'Book summary:For the last 35 years British biologist Jane Goodall has been living among African chimpanzees, recording their behavior and explaining it in a number of fine books. With literature professor Dale Peterson, Goodall here looks at the place of chimpanzees in the popular imagination, from Shakespeare's play The Tempest (whence the book's title) to David Letterman's monkey-cam, while Goodall recaps her work among chimps and decries their probably unhappy future. As she tells us in chilling detail, the chimpanzees' rain forest habitat is on the decline due to consumption of fuel wood as well as industrial logging, and chimps are thus threatened with extinction. The authors even wonder whether, given the relentless destruction of the chimpanzees' home, the poor creatures might not be better off in zoos. Peterson's and Goodall's point-counterpoint makes for fascinating, if somber, reading. [via]
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Walker's Primates of the Worldby Ronald M. Nowak, Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands, William R. KonstantISBN 0801862515 (0-8018-6251-5)
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Walking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikasby Sy MontgomeryISBN 0395611563 (0-395-61156-3)
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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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The Woman That Never Evolvedby Sarah HrdyISBN 0674955412 (0-674-95541-2)
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The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updatesby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0674955390 (0-674-95539-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updates'Book summary:What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males.
In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order.
Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.
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The Year of the Gorillaby George B. SchallerISBN 0226736377 (0-226-73637-7)
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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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