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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (The University Center for Human Values Series)
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Frans de Waal draws on his own and others' considerable research into primate behavior in arguing that human beings come endowed by nature with strong moral equipment. He argues more carefully in this book whose audience is more academic, than in others of his books, but he revisits many of the same themes, such as compassion and perspective-taking, an... »
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Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
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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 6... »
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Monkey Portraits
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Book Description:We share about 98 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, our closest biological cousins. And never have the similarities between simians and humans been so amusingly and brilliantly captured as in Monkey Portratis. Jill Greenberg has spent 15 years photographing celebrities--from Clint Eastwood to Drew Barrymore--... »
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In the Shadow of Man
[[ASIN:1571781897 Kinship with Animals: Updated Edition]]
In the Shadow Of Man is the story of Jane Goodall's first foray into the African jungle in... »
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Orangutan Odyssey
In the 1960s, the legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey encouraged a trio of remarkable woman scientists--Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté... »
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Our Inner Ape
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 prim... »
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The Nonhuman Primates
This is a good reference book for those with a strong background in biology who are interested in primates. The essays are well organized and color photo... »
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