Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange
valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades,
deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich
vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and
callous and develop irrational phobias, just like us. Monkeys
address inequality, wolves miss each other, elephants grieve for
their dead, and prairie dogs name the humans they encounter. Human
and animal behavior is not as different as once believed. In Not So
Different, the biologist Nathan H. Lents argues that the same
evolutionary forces of cooperation and competition have shaped both
humans and animals. Identical emotional and instinctual drives
govern our actions. By acknowledging this shared programming, the
human experience no longer seems unique, but in that loss we gain a
fuller appreciation of such phenomena as sibling rivalry and the
biological basis of grief, helping us lead more grounded, moral
lives among animals, our closest kin. Through a mix of colorful
reporting and rigorous scientific research, Lents describes the
exciting strides scientists have made in decoding animal behavior
and bringing the evolutionary paths of humans and animals closer
together. He marshals evidence from psychology, evolutionary
biology, cognitive science, anthropology, and ethology to further
advance this work and to drive home the truth that we are
distinguished from animals only in degree, not in kind.
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