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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal
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Category: Natural History and Environment
What separates your mind from the mind of an animal? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the pre-eminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, claims of human superiority have been ...Show more
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals are? by Frans De Waal
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Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: very good
What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future; all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the preeminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded, or disproven outri ...Show more
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender by Frans de Waal
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Category: Science
How different are men and women? Is gender uniquely human or do other primates also learn gendered roles? Drawing on decades of observing other primates, especially our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, world renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores what we know of biological sex ...Show more
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender by Frans de Waal
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Category: Science
A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE? A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of Are We Smar ...Show more
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What they Teach Us by Frans De Waal
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Category: Natural History and Environment
Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal intelligence, Mama's Last Hug delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals.Mama's Last Hug ...Show more
Our Inner Ape : The Best and Worst of Human Nature by Frans De Waal
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Category: Science
We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? From a scientist and writer whom E.O. Wilson has called 'the world authority on primate social behavior' comes a li ...Show more
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal
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Category: Natural History and Environment
Empathy holds us together. That we are hardwired to be altruistic is the result of thousands of years of evolutionary biology which has kept society from slipping into anarchy. But we are not alone: primates, elephants, even rodents are empathetic creatures too.Social behaviours such as the herding inst ...Show more
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