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Kanzi: the ape at the brink of the human mind

Kanzi: the ape at the brink of the human mind

E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Roger Lewin - Science - 1996 - 336 pages
Describes how the bonobo chimpanzee communicates using symbols, and how this behavior has caused scientists to reevaluate their theories about communication
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Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey

Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey

Craig Britton Stanford - Science - 1998 - 296 pages
Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, are familiar enough--bright and ornery and promiscuous. But they also kill and eat their kin, in this case the red colobus monkey ...
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

Frans De Waal - Science - 2006 - 304 pages
From "one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior" (Desmond Morris) comes a look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and ...
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The Evolution of Primate Behavior
Jane Goodall: A Biography

Jane Goodall: A Biography

Meg Greene - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 146 pages
A biography on the life, career, and views of one of today's best-known scientists traces Goodall's path from an early fascination with animals to her landmark, but ...
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Sex and friendship in baboons

Sex and friendship in baboons

Barbara Smuts - Science - 1985 - 303 pages
Those who have been privileged to watch baboons long enough to know them as individuals and who have learned to interpret some of their more subtle interactions will attest ...
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Brutal kinship

Brutal kinship

Michael Nichols, Jane Goodall - Photography - 1999 - 127 pages
Essay by Jane Goodall. Text by Michael Nichols.
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Social behaviour in primates
The thinking ape: evolutionary origins of intelligence

The thinking ape: evolutionary origins of intelligence

Richard W. Byrne - Psychology - 1995 - 266 pages
This text describes how human ancestors reached the point in cognitive evolution from which the evolution of modern humans was possible. Rather than speculating about the ...
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