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In the Shadow of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,883 ratings — published 1971
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,201 ratings — published 2001
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,793 ratings — published 2013
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,486 ratings — published 2005
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,396 ratings — published 1983
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,580 ratings — published 1990
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,115 ratings — published 1982
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.30 — 918 ratings — published 1995
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,125 ratings — published 1997
The Ape and the Sushi Master: Reflections of a Primatologist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.05 — 622 ratings — published 2001
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.32 — 526 ratings — published 1997
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,372 ratings — published 2006
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,954 ratings — published 1994
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,331 ratings — published 2022
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,115 ratings — published 1991
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,050 ratings — published 2010
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,899 ratings — published 2019
Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.20 — 823 ratings — published 1991
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,034 ratings — published 2016
My Life with the Chimpanzees (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,344 ratings — published 1988
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,080 ratings — published 1967
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,009 ratings — published 1996
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,694 ratings — published 2009
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,430 ratings — published 2013
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,828 ratings — published 2017
The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.08 — 108 ratings — published 1993
The Year of the Gorilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.03 — 149 ratings — published 1964
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.12 — 225 ratings — published 1994
The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.46 — 145 ratings — published 1986
The Cultured Chimpanzee: Reflections on Cultural Primatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published 2004
Primate Conservation Biology (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.00 — 28 ratings — published 2000
Primate Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.12 — 33 ratings — published 1987
Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.79 — 29 ratings — published 2000
Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.37 — 664 ratings — published 1999
Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.02 — 122 ratings — published 1987
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,133 ratings — published 2019
Visions Of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.18 — 67 ratings — published 1993
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.04 — 200 ratings — published 2007
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.12 — 472 ratings — published 1996
Baboon Mothers and Infants (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published 1980
Primate Adaptation and Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 76 ratings — published 1988
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.80 — 783 ratings — published 2008
Primate Cognition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.26 — 34 ratings — published 1997
Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.23 — 127 ratings — published 2001
Primate Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.05 — 20 ratings — published 2003
Primate Behavioral Ecology (2nd Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.84 — 87 ratings — published 1999
Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes: Exploring Primate Behavioural Flexibility Across Human Contexts (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)
by (shelved 3 times as primatology)
avg rating 2.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Promise of Contemporary Primatology (New Biological Anthropology)
by (shelved 3 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.58 — 12 ratings — published
Introduction to Physical Anthropology 2009-2010 Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.88 — 275 ratings — published 1962
Primate Comparative Anatomy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2014
“This book [...] demonstrates something we had already suspected on the grounds of the close connection between apes and man: that the social organization of chimpanzees is almost too human to be true.”
― Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
― Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
“Every morning, the male and female [Siamang] burst into spectacular duets. [...] Since the song reflects their marriage, the more beautiful it is, the more their neighbors realize not to mess with them. A close-harmony duet communicates not only "stay out!" but also "we're one!" (p. 177)”
― Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
― Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
