The Great Apes

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Apes are our closest relatives, our cousins. We are alter nately fascinated by t heir resemblance, bothered or upset by the image of our own humanity they send back to us, as a mirror would do. In the attraction apes exert on us, there is this old philosophic question that frightens us about their place in Nature and ours, and about the bonds they share with Homo sapiens. Since the discovery of chimpanzee tool making and using by Jane Goodaland Toshida Nishida in Tanzania, all f rontiers between humanity and animality have been reconsidered. They have cultures, can laugh or recognize themselves in a mirror as we do. Today, regarding the last decades of research in primatology, apes have definitely joined our family album.

Tous nos remerciements à Frans de Waal - Carel van Schaik - Tetsuro Matsuzawa - Christophe Boesch - Claudine André - Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods - et Jason Mier pour leur collaboration et aide.

Evans Mitchell Books 128 pages £14.99

ISBN 10 : 1-901268-31-4 ISBN13 : 978-1-901268-31-7

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