Our Inner Ape: The Best And Worst Of Human Nature

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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 & morality by virtue of our genes? From a scientist & writer whom EO Wilson has called 'the world authority on primate social behavior' comes a lively look at the most provocative aspects of human nature
- power sex violence kindness & morality
- through our two closest cousins in the ape family For nearly 20 years Frans de Waal has worked with both the famously aggressive chimpanzee & the lesser-known egalitarian erotic matriarchal bonobo two species whose DNA is nearly identical to that of humans He brings these apes to life on every page revealing their personalities relationships & power struggles creating an engrossing narrative that explores what their behaviour can teach us about ourselves & each other