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A unique beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives and the development of primatology as a discipline This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees bonobos gorillas orangutans) from antiquity to the present Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes it traces twists and turns in our construction of primate knowledge over five hundred years Chris Herzfeld outlines the development of primatology and its key players and events including well-known long-term field studies notably the pioneering work by women such as Jane Goodall Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas Herzfeld seeks to heighten our understanding of great apes and the many ways they are like us The
reader will encounter apes living in human families painting apes apes who use American Sign Language and chimpanzees who travelled in space A philosopher and historian specializing in primatology Herzfeld offers thought-provoking insights about our perceptions of apes as well as the boundary between human and ape and what it means to be either
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A unique beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives & the development of primatology as a discipline This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees bonobos gorillas orangutans) from antiquity to the present Replete with fascinating historical details & anecdotes it traces twists & turns in our construction of primate knowledge over five hundred years Chris Herzfeld outlines the development of primatology & its key players & events including well-known long-term field studies notably the pioneering work by women such as Jane Goodall Dian Fossey & Birute Galdikas Herzfeld seeks to heighten our understanding of great apes & the many ways they are like us The reader will encounter apes living in human families painting apes apes who use American Sign Language & chimpanzees who travelled in space A philosopher & historian specializing in primatology Herzfeld offers thought-provoking insights about our perceptions of apes as well as the boundary between human & ape & what it means to be either

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