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In the Shadow of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,335 ratings — published 1971
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,908 ratings — published 2001
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,415 ratings — published 2005
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,645 ratings — published 2013
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,207 ratings — published 1983
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,418 ratings — published 1990
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.28 — 890 ratings — published 1995
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,025 ratings — published 1982
The Ape and the Sushi Master: Reflections of a Primatologist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.05 — 614 ratings — published 2001
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,092 ratings — published 1997
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,843 ratings — published 1994
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.32 — 516 ratings — published 1997
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,351 ratings — published 2006
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,171 ratings — published 2022
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,687 ratings — published 2019
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,688 ratings — published 1991
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,035 ratings — published 2010
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,517 ratings — published 2016
Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.19 — 771 ratings — published 1991
My Life with the Chimpanzees (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,695 ratings — published 1988
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.05 — 969 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 — 2,636 ratings — published 2009
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,135 ratings — published 1967
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,354 ratings — published 2013
The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.07 — 108 ratings — published 1993
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 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 3.80 — 30 ratings — published 2000
Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.37 — 663 ratings — published 1999
Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.01 — 120 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 — 1,059 ratings — published 2019
The Year of the Gorilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.03 — 146 ratings — published 1964
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.05 — 193 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 4.11 — 462 ratings — published 1996
The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.47 — 143 ratings — published 1986
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
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 4.22 — 125 ratings — published 2001
Primate Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.05 — 20 ratings — published 2003
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 4.64 — 11 ratings — published
Introduction to Physical Anthropology 2009-2010 Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primatology)
avg rating 3.88 — 274 ratings — published 1962
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.38 — 32,135 ratings — published 2017
Primate Comparative Anatomy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2014
Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,051 ratings — published 2005
The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.60 — 53 ratings — published 1996
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as primatology)
avg rating 4.21 — 928 ratings — published 2006
“Some might call these people power-hungry baboons, but frankly, that’s an insult to baboons. At least real baboons know how to lead within their own social structures. Their hierarchies—though rigid—serve a function in their troop. Alpha baboons protect their community, share resources (to an extent), and engage in elaborate social grooming that reinforces connection. When an alpha loses their strength or abuses their role, they get overthrown, often dramatically, but fairly. Compare that to human leaders who cling to power at all costs, build systems that ensure their dominance, and leave the weak to suffer.”
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“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











