"From "the world authority on primate social behavior" (E.O. Wilson) comes a startling look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our closest cousins in the ape family. For nearly twenty years, Frans de Waal has studied and worked with both the famously aggressive chimpanzee and the lesser-known egalitarian, matriarchal bonobo, two species whose DNA is nearly identical to that of humans. De Waal shows the range of human behavior through his study of chimpanzees and bonobos, drawing from their personalities, relationships, power struggles, and hijinks important insights about our human behavior. The result is an engrossing narrative that reveals what their behavior can teach us about our own nature. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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