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The Great Apes - A Short History (Hardcover)
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The Great Apes - A Short History (Hardcover)
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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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