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In the Shadow of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as primates)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,715 ratings — published 1971
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as primates)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,335 ratings — published 1983
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as primates)
avg rating 4.16 — 124,629 ratings — published 1994
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as primates)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,080 ratings — published 1982
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as primates)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,390 ratings — published 2013
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as primates)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,458 ratings — published 2005
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as primates)
avg rating 4.32 — 522 ratings — published 1997
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as primates)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,100 ratings — published 2001
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as primates)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,117 ratings — published 1997
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as primates)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,529 ratings — published 1990
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as primates)
avg rating 4.30 — 905 ratings — published 1995
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as primates)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,745 ratings — published 2013
One Gorilla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as primates)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,056 ratings — published 2012
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as primates)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,991 ratings — published 1991
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as primates)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,046 ratings — published 2010
The Ape and the Sushi Master: Reflections of a Primatologist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primates)
avg rating 4.05 — 618 ratings — published 2001
Primate Cognition (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primates)
avg rating 4.26 — 34 ratings — published 1997
Walking with Gorillas: The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.06 — 299 ratings — published 2023
Grumpy Monkey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,882 ratings — published 2018
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,832 ratings — published 2019
Good Night, Gorilla (Board book)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.24 — 52,377 ratings — published 1994
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,008 ratings — published 2014
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 3.71 — 128,701 ratings — published 2013
Count the Monkeys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,901 ratings — published 2013
Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World And Ours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.22 — 188 ratings — published
The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.27 — 216,348 ratings — published 2012
Ape House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 3.51 — 30,649 ratings — published 2010
Curious George (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.17 — 140,942 ratings — published 1941
Peacemaking among Primates (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.21 — 156 ratings — published 1988
My Life with the Chimpanzees (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,182 ratings — published 1988
The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.46 — 145 ratings — published 1986
Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,689 ratings — published 1987
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.07 — 236 ratings — published 1989
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.05 — 990 ratings — published 1996
Great Ape Societies (Volume 0)
by (shelved 4 times as primates)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 1996
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,274 ratings — published 2022
In the Kingdom of Gorillas: The Quest to Save Rwanda's Mountain Gorillas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.14 — 164 ratings — published 2001
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.12 — 467 ratings — published 1996
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 3.64 — 180,812 ratings — published 1980
The Year of the Gorilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.03 — 149 ratings — published 1964
Visions Of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.17 — 66 ratings — published 1993
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,106 ratings — published 2011
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,366 ratings — published 2006
Curious George Visits the Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,115 ratings — published 2003
Curious George Visits the Zoo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,509 ratings — published 1985
The Woman That Never Evolved (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.05 — 248 ratings — published 1981
Primate Behavioral Ecology (2nd Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 3.84 — 87 ratings — published 1999
Primate Anatomy: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1999
Primate Males: Causes and Consequences of Variation in Group Composition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2000
Primate Conservation Biology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primates)
avg rating 4.00 — 28 ratings — published 2000
“Scientists treat animals like petri dishes—recording emotional distress and physiological terror like weather fluctuations on a barometer.”
― Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
― Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Apes do evidently understand what others are doing, and they can prudently do the same, in which sense they "cooperate"—for their own reasons. But they lack the ability to symbolically participate in others' existence and thus communalize their own. [...]
"Traditional models of economic decision-making assume that people are self-interested rational maximizers. Empirical research has demonstrated, however, that people will take into account the interest of others and are sensitive to norms of cooperation and fairness. [...] Here we show that in an ultimatum game, humans' closest living relatives, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), are rational maximizers and are not sensitive to fairness. These results support the hypothesis that other-regarding preferences and aversion to inequitable outcomes, which play key roles in human social organization, distinguish us from our closest living relatives." {Jensen, Call, and To masello 2007, 107; see also Jensen et al. 2006)
So much, then, for the dismal economic science—whose future is not bright either, inasmuch as chimpanzees are disappearing.”
― What Kinship Is-And Is Not
"Traditional models of economic decision-making assume that people are self-interested rational maximizers. Empirical research has demonstrated, however, that people will take into account the interest of others and are sensitive to norms of cooperation and fairness. [...] Here we show that in an ultimatum game, humans' closest living relatives, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), are rational maximizers and are not sensitive to fairness. These results support the hypothesis that other-regarding preferences and aversion to inequitable outcomes, which play key roles in human social organization, distinguish us from our closest living relatives." {Jensen, Call, and To masello 2007, 107; see also Jensen et al. 2006)
So much, then, for the dismal economic science—whose future is not bright either, inasmuch as chimpanzees are disappearing.”
― What Kinship Is-And Is Not
