Tree of Origin
Subtitle: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution
Contributors: Frans B. M. de Waal (Editor)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: April 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674004603
Subjects: Evolution; Primates; Science; Life Sciences - Evolution - Human; Science/Mathematics; Sociology - Social Theory; Life Sciences - Zoology - Primatology; Science / Evolution; Life Sciences - Evolution; Behavior; Human evolution; Social evolution
Description: How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and successful apes we are? Our closest relatives offer tantalizing clues. In this volume top primate experts read these clues and compose an extensive picture of what the behaviour of monkeys and apes can tellus about our own evolution as a species.