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DID YOU KNOW THAT
- we have more hair follicles than a chimpanzee
- a male boxer in top condition can punch with the force of a thirteen-pound mallet swung at twenty miles an hour
- the best human endurance runners can outlast a horse
- one odor above all is sexually stimulating to the human male: cinnamon buns
- our home-building skills compare nicely with those of the bagworm
With dry wit and penetrating insight, science journalist Hannah Holmes casts the eye of a trained researcher and reporter on . . . herself. And on our whole species. She compares the biology and behavior of humans with that of other creatures, exploring how the human animal fits into the natural world. Holmes also reveals the ways in which Homo sapiens stands apart from other mammals (and all other animals) in ways that are alternately admirable and devastating. Deftly mixing personal stories with the latest scientific research, Hannah Holmes has fashioned an engaging field guide to that oddest and most fascinating of primates: ourselves.

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Filled with scads of peculiar facts and intriguing mysteries, The Well-Dressed Ape mates hard-nosed research with lively, funny wordsmithing to produce a refreshing, original look at our own kind. --Amy Sutherland, author of What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage <br> Hannah Holmes provides a fantastic synopsis of the human species. The best and the worst, the beautiful and the ugly--even the stinky. --Mark Norell, chairman and curator, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History

Filled with scads of peculiar facts and intriguing mysteries, The Well-Dressed Ape mates hard-nosed research with lively, funny wordsmithing to produce a refreshing, original look at our own kind. --Amy Sutherland, author of What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage<br><br> Hannah Holmes provides a fantastic synopsis of the human species. The best and the worst, the beautiful and the ugly--even the stinky. --Mark Norell, chairman and curator, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History

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