Overview
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? What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we? From a scientist and writer E. O. Wilson has called the world authority on primate social behavior comes a fascinating 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 shows the range of human behavior through his study of chimpanzees and bonobos, drawing from their personalities, relationships, power struggles, and high jinks important insights about our human behavior. The result is an engrossing and surprising narrative that reveals what their behavior can teach us about our own nature. An informative and engaging work. --Library Journal De Waal offers vivid, often delightful stories of politics, sex, violence and kindness in the ape communities he has studied to illustrate such questions as why we are irreverent toward the powerful and whether men or women are better at conflict resolution.--Publishers Weekly Never has he [de Waal] written better on his great theme than in this absorbing overview of power, sex, violence, and kindness among apes--and humans.--Booklist Sklar adds just a touch of a smile to his sonorous voice, conveying friendliness, warmth, and humor.--AudioFile Magazine
Full Product Details
Author: Frans de Waal ,
Alan Sklar
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798200148738
Publication Date: 01 November 2005
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"An informative and engaging work that stresses the similarities and differences among humans, bonobos, and chimpanzees.-- ""Library Journal Starred Review"" ""An informative and engaging work that stresses the similarities and differences among humans, bonobos, and chimpanzees."" -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"" ""De Waal offers vivid, often delightful stories of politics, sex, violence, and kindness in the ape communities he has studied to illustrate such questions as why we are irreverent toward the powerful."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""Illuminating and provocative"" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"""
Author Information
Frans de Waal, PhD, is a biologist and ethologist, world-renowned for his work on the social intelligence of primates. He has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People and is the author of numerous books, including The Ape and the Sushi Master, which was named a New York Times Notable Book, Our Inner Ape, and Peacemaking among Primates, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is a Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University and the director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Center in Atlanta. Alan Sklar, a graduate of Dartmouth, has excelled in his career as a freelance voice actor. Named a Best Voice of 2009 by AudioFile magazine, his work has earned him several Earphones Awards, a Booklist Editors' Choice Award (twice), a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord magazine. He has also narrated thousands of corporate videos for clients such as NASA, Sikorsky Aircraft, IBM, Dannon, Pfizer, AT&T, and SONY.
