About this title: "Stiff" meets "Your Inner Fish" in this surprising, humorous, and edifying description of Homo sapiens, as if humans were a newly-discovered animal.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 39833
ISBN-13:9781400065417ISBN:1400065410
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Binding: Spoken Word MP3-CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Date Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN-13:9781423376187ISBN:1423376188
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2009-01-20
ISBN-13:9781400065417ISBN:1400065410
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781423376187ISBN:1423376188
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridge
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781423376163ISBN:1423376161
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Binding: Spoken Word MP3-CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Lib Edn
Date Published: 2009-01-06
ISBN-13:9781423376194ISBN:1423376196
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"Although this book is ostensibly about the human animal, I learned a lot of fascinating stuff about other animals. My personal preference would have been to have footnotes for references to other books and scientific papers rather than a chapter by chapter bibliography. That said, I really enjoyed the rich narrative spun with Holmes' delightful command of the English language."
"Being a lover of all things natural and environmental, this book appealed to me. It categorized humans in much the same way one would categorize species, but it did so in a very clever and accessible way. There were also a lot of strange and interesting facts about humans that I never knew, and what's more fun than learning about ourselves?"
"Holmes takes a look at humans from a biologist's viewpoint, as if we are just another species. The objective comparison of humans with other species is intriguing, especially because things that in the past were seen as uniquely human (tool use, language) have been found to exist in other species. But the true differences are telling -- that we feel guilt about eliminating other species, that we can think so abstractly, that we ponder our own existence so thoroughly. But it's clear that we evolved each of our physical and behavioral traits over time, just as all other species did. This book caused me to think about humans in a new light, and wonder even more about intelligent life on other planets."
"This was funny and interesting. Full of lots of facts about humans and other animals. For instance: the female spotted hyena has a modified clitoris about the size of a male's penis, through which she pees, mates and even gives birth."
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