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How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives - the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates - offer tantalizing clues. In this volume nine of the world's top primate experts read these clues and compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behaviour of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as a species. This text gives us the latest news about bonobos, the "make love not war" apes who behave so dramatically unlike chimpanzees. We learn about the tool traditions and social customs that set each ape community apart. We see how DNA analysis is revolutionizing our understanding of paternity, inter-group migration, and reproductive success. And we confront intriguing discoveries about primate hunting behavior, politics, cognition, diet, and the evolution of language and intelligence that challenge claims of human uniqueness in new and subtle ways.
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...the contributors constitute some of the leading lights in evolutionary-comparative primatology and it is a treat to find examples of their work collected together in one volume. -- Times Higher Education Supplement 25 April 2003
De Waal is one of the subtlest, most knowledgeable and most cheerful students of great ape behaviour. -- London Review of Books, 20 September 2001
De Waal's is just one of a fascinating bunch of essays by primatologists in Tree of Origin. They re-examine human social evolution from the perspective of naturalistic observations of non-human primates, and then extrapolate to humans. -- New Scientist, 28 April 2001
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Rans B. M. De Waal is C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Psychology Department, and Director of Living Links, part of the Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University. His many books include Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals and Peacemaking among Primates.
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0674004604
- ISBN 13 9780674004603
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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