Title: The Red Ape
First published: 1987
Description: "In upending the conventional wisdom on relationships between apes and humans, Schwartz provides a fresh examination of the fossil record, genetics, and the comparative anatomy and physiology of humans and other living primates. Discussing these topics from a historical, philosophical, and theoretical perspective, he argues that it is the Asian orangutan, not the African chimpanzee, bonobo, or gorilla, that is humankind's closest evolutionary cousin. The result is a challenge to what we think we know about the origins of humans"--Book jacket.
Subjects: Orangutan, Human evolution, Evolution, Pongo pygmaeus, Hominidae, Origin, Human beings, Bornean orangutan, Orangutans, Biological Evolution
LC classification: GN281 .S33 1987