The Ape and the Sushi Master: Reflections of a Primatologist
10 best books like The Ape and the Sushi Master: Reflections of a Primatologist (Frans de Waal): A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, The Kingdom of Rarities, The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings, Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective, Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees, A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals, The Octopus and the Orangutan: New Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity, Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo, Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind, Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
| Author | Robert M. Sapolsky |
| ISBN | 0743202414 |
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.
“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when...
| Author | Eric Dinerstein |
| ISBN | 1610911954 |
When you look out your window, why are you so much more likely to see a robin or a sparrow than a Kirtland's warbler or a California condor? Why are some animals naturally rare and others so abundant? The quest to find and study seldom-seen jaguars and flamboyant Andean cocks-of-the-rock is as alluring...
| Author | Mark Ridley |
| ISBN | 0743201612 |
Why isn't all life pond-scum? Why are there multimillion-celled, long-lived monsters like us, built from tens of thousands of cooperating genes? Mark Ridley presents a new explanation of how complex large life forms like ourselves came to exist, showing that the answer to the greatest mystery of...
| Author | Paul Colinvaux |
| ISBN | 0691023646 |
The first part of my review is actually in my reading progress comments below - if you really want to know what I think, you have to read those. ;)
Now I'm done. Overall, I love the book, and would have read it several times if I'd owned it when it was new & I was a teen. Now, I just don't know how much...
| Author | Roger Fouts |
| ISBN | 0380728222 |
For 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals....
| Author | Tim Flannery |
| ISBN | 0871137976 |
"Since humanity first wandered from its African birthplace over fifty millennia ago, it has radically altered the environment everywhere it has settled, often at the cost of the creatures that ruled the wild before its arrival. As our prehistoric ancestors spread throughout the globe, they began...
| Author | Eugene Linden |
| ISBN | 0452284112 |
In The Octopus and the Orangutan, Eugene Linden takes readers on another unforgettable journey into the minds and hearts of animals, going beyond our everyday encounters with animals at home and in the zoo in a wide-ranging collection of real-life anecdotes.
The Octopus and the Orangutan...
| Author | Biruté M.F. Galdikas |
| ISBN | 0316301868 |
From the first, it was an adventure. In 1971, at age twenty-five, Galdikas left the placid world of American academia for the remote jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Living with her husband in a primitive camp, she became surrogate mother to a "family" of ex-captive orangutans - and gradually adjusted...
| Author | Dorothy L. Cheney |
| ISBN | 0226102432 |
In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, “He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” Baboon Metaphysics is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth’s fascinating response to Darwin’s challenge.
Cheney and Seyfarth...
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
Do animals think? Can they count? Do they have emotions? Do they feel anger, frustration, hurt, or sorrow? At last, here is a book that provides authoritative answers to these long-standing questions. Most popular science books t to misrepresent animals, presenting them either as furry little humans...
| Author | Jane Goodall |
| ISBN | 0618056777 |
THROUGH A WINDOW is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of a community, of birth and death, sex and love, power and war. It reads like a novel, but it is one of the most important scientific works ever published. The community is Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tangganyika, where the principal residents...
| Author | Alan C. Walker |
| ISBN | 0679747834 |
"Fascinating. . . . As engaging an explanation of how scientists study fossil bones as any I have ever read." --John R. Alden, Philadelphia Inquirer
In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern Kenya found something extraordinary: a nearly complete skeleton of Homo erectus,...
Into the Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution
| Author | Sean B. Carroll |
| ISBN | 0321556712 |
Carroll opens the book with a quote from Rudyard Kipling that basically states that one learns history best when it is told in stories. Carroll believes the same is true for science; so in this book he tells the stories of 19th and 20th century scientists and their discoveries. He frames the book around...
Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya
Boldly challenging conventional wisdom, acclaimed science writer and Omni magazine cofounder Dick Teresi traces the origins of contemporary science back to their ancient roots in an eye-opening account and landmark work.
This innovative history proves once and for all that the roots of modern...
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
| Author | Jerome H. Barkow |
| ISBN | 0195101073 |
Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the...
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 1844133230 |
For millennia, nature's biggest and fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge and fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land and at sea. Yet animals...
| Author | Richard E. Leakey |
| ISBN | 0385468091 |
Richard Leakey, One Of The World's Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now Turns His Eye To The Future And Doesn't Like What He Sees.
To the philosophical the earth is eternal, while the human race -- presumptive keeper of the world's history -- is a mere speck in...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0395611563 |
OK, what is it about these women and apes? Why would they be intent on devoting decades of their lives in the field, under the most improbable circumstances (Leakey's choice!) and the roughest, most uncomfortable conditions?
The premise of this book is to give an overview of the careers of the...
| Author | David Sloan Wilson |
| ISBN | 0226901351 |
One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral takes the radical step of joining the two, in the process proposing...
| Author | Jennifer Lindsey |
| ISBN | 1556709471 |
Produced in association with the Jane Goodall Institute on the occasion of Goodall's 40th anniversary of groundbreaking research with the chimpanzees of Gombe, this beautifully illustrated volume traces her work from its singular beginnings to the Jane Goodall Institute's present-day international...
| Author | Carl Zimmer |
| ISBN | 0061196673 |
From the savannas of Africa to modern-day labs for biomechanical analysis and molecular genetics, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins reveals how anthropologists are furiously redrawing the human family tree. Their discoveries have spawned a host of new questions: Should chimpanzees...
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
| Author | Richard W. Wrangham |
| ISBN | 0395877431 |
Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, Demonic Males offers some startling new answers. Dramatic, vivid,...
