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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes

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by Dr. Frans de Waal

"Gingrich has been a avid follower of de Waal's work for years. He has even placed de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among the Apes on his recommended reading list, along with better known texts such as the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Federalist Papers. What secrets has Gingrich gleaned from our simian ...

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Peacemaking Among Primates

Peacemaking Among Primates more books like this

by Dr. Frans de Waal, F B M De Waal

'De Waal's message is simple yet profound... (He describes) in lucid and vivid prose the peacemaking strategies of four non-human primates he has studied in captivity... His analysis should prove compelling for any reader who has ever made up after a fight--in short, for anyone.' - Barbara Smuts, Natural History

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Good Natured

Good Natured more books like this

by Dr. Frans de Waal, F B M De Waal, Waal De

To observe a dog's guilty look, to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf - to catch animals in certain acts is to wonder what moves them. Might there be a code of ethics in the animal kingdom? Must an animal be human to be humane? In this book, a scientist ...

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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes

Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes more books like this

by F B M De Waal

In "Chimpanzee politics", Frans de Waal expands and updates his extraordinary account of the daily life of a large zoo colony of chimpanzees in Arnhem, The Netherlands. This new edition - with a gallery of colour photographs - expands our knowledge of chimpanzee behaviour and tells what has happened to the members of the arnhem colony in the past ...

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Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals

Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals more books like this

by Dr. Frans de Waal

The author challenges those who have declared ethics uniquely human. Making a case for a morality grounded in biology, he shows that ethical behaviour, in humans and animals alike, is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait. Anecdotes, theories and data are used throughout.

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Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape

Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape more books like this

by Dr. Frans de Waal, F B M De Waal, Frans Lanting (Photographer)

This remarkable primate with the curious name is challenging established views on human evolution. The bonobo, least known of the great apes, is a female-centered, egalitarian species that has been dubbed the 'make-love-not-war' primate by specialists. In bonobo society, females form alliances to intimidate males, sexual behavior (in virtually ...

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My Family Album: Thirty Years of Primate Photography

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by F B M De Waal, Dr. Frans de Waal (Text by)

For more than three decades Frans de Waal, the author of books such as "Chimpanzee Politics" and "Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape", has studied monkeys and apes in zoos, research parks and field settings. Photographing his subjects over the years, de Waal has compiled a unique family album of our closest animal relatives. To capture the social life of ...

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Natural Conflict Resolution

Natural Conflict Resolution more books like this

by Filippo Aureli (Editor), F B M De Waal (Editor)

Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book shows, our species relies heavily on co-operation for survival as do many others - from wolves and dolphins to monkeys and apes. A distinguished group of 52 authors, including many of the world's ...

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Bonobo

Bonobo more books like this

by Dr. Frans de Waal, F B M De Waal, Frans Lanting (Photographer)

This remarkable primate with the curious name is challenging established views on human evolution. The bonobo, least known of the great apes, is a female-centred, egalitarian species that has been dubbed the 'make-love-not-war' primate by specialists. In bonobo society, females form alliances to intimidate males, sexual behaviour (in virtually ...

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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved more books like this

by F B M De Waal, Dr. Frans de Waal, Stephen Macedo (Editor)

"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? "Primates and Philosophers" tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a ...

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The Ape and the Sushi Master Reflections of a Primatologist more books like this

by Dr. Frans de Waal, F B M De Waal

This collection of anecdotes about primate behavior draws on observations of individual animals by researchers who have come to the conclusion that some behaviors are passed on by the social group--and thus fall under the category of culture. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

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Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies more books like this

by F B M De Waal (Editor), Peter L Tyack (Editor), Dr. Frans de Waal (Editor)

For over 25 years, primatologists have speculated that intelligence, at least in monkeys and apes, evolved as an adaptation to the complicated social milieu of hard-won friendships and bitterly contested rivalries. Yet the Balkanization of animal research has prevented us from studying the same problem, in other large-brained, long-lived animals, ...

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Our inner ape : the best and worst of human nature

by F. B. M. de Waal

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? From a scientist and writer whom E.O. Wilson has called 'the world authority on primate social behavior' comes a lively look at the most provocative aspects of ...

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