About this title: Arguing that apes have created their own distinctive culture, eminent primatologist Frans de Waal challenges our most basic assumptions about who we are and how we differ from other animals.. What if apes had their own culture rather than an imposed human version? What if they reacted to situations with behavior learned through observation of their elders (culture) rather than with pure genetically coded instinct (nature)? In answering these questions, eminent primatologist Frans de Waal corrects our arrogant assumption that humans are the only creatures to have made the leap from the ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780465041763ISBN:0465041760
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2001-12-26
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2001
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780465041763ISBN:0465041760
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2001-12
ISBN-13:9780465041763ISBN:0465041760
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"For anyone who enjoys the "do animals have culture" debate, this book focuses largely on whether or not certain aspects of primate behavior fit the anthropologic definition of culture. On a deeper level, de Waal aims to challenge our definition of ourselves by attacking the human desire to see ourselves as "above the beasts". He does so by demonstrating that our distinctions of nature vs. culture often do not hold up. de Waal is probably one of the better academic writers I've read and his analogies and explanations make the academia worth it."
"Even more than a study of what we can learn about ourselves by studying other creatures with fewer preconcieved Western notions about the differences between humans and other primates (not to mention other animal species), this book explores the science itself: how various schools of scientific thought arose, how difficult it is for scientists vested in one school of thought to open themselves to others, all with a tacit (and sometimes obvious) suggestion that scientists engage in more open discussion of our own biases and blinders. A good book for professional, amature, and 'armchair' scientists."
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