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Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships by Dario Maestripieri Publisher Comments Most humans don't realize that when they exchange emails with someone, anyone, they are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy. The same rules regulate the exchange of grooming behavior in rhesus macaques or chimpanzees.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover 
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the baboons... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments It's the animal in us, we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins by Maddalena Bearzi Publisher Comments Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery by Andrew Westoll Publisher Comments “Astonishing . . . Moving.” —People “The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary is an unflinching, visceral look at the emotional and physical damage—actual, real damage done to specific, individual apes—in some of... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Next of Kin (97 Edition) by Roger Fouts Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakeys Last Angel Into Borneo by Linda Spalding Publisher Comments Spalding takes readers on a fascinating journey through Borneo's threatened jungles on the trail of infamous orangutan researcher Birute Galdikas.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Brutal Kinship by Michael Nichols Publisher Comments Brutal Kinship explores the relationship between humankind and its closest relative, the chimpanzee, presenting these extraordinary animals in the wild, in captivity, and in sanctuaries created expressly for their protection. In his revealing photographs... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments "Gingrich has been a avid follower of de Waal's work for years. He has even placed de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among the Apes on his recommended reading list, along with better known texts such as the Declaration of Independence, the U.S.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments AFRICA IN MY BLOOD is an extraordinary self-portrait in letters of Jane Goodall's early years, from childhood to the publication of IN THE SHADOW OF MAN, revealing this remarkable woman more vividly than anything published before, by her or about her. We... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky Publisher Comments The author offers a memoir of his two decades in the field studying Kenyan baboons as he describes the members of the baboon troop and their behavior and his interaction with the neighboring Masai tribe.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Last Great Ape: A Journey Through Africa and a Fight for the Heart of the Continent by Ofir Drori Publisher Comments An epic journey through Africa by a man who fell in love with a magical and disappearing world and then transformed himself into a warrior on the frontline to protect it. Staging heart-pounding, espionage-style raids, Ofir Drori and his... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Walker's Primates of the World by Ronald M Nowak Publisher Comments From Nigeria's needle-clawed bush baby to the snub-nosed langur of Tibet, from loris to lemur, from the woolly monkey to the naked ape, primates are among the world's most diverse--and distinctive--groups of mammals. Seventy million years of evolving... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates Through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary by Lisa (edt) Kemmerer Publisher Comments In the last 30 years the bushmeat trade has led to the slaughter of nearly 90 percent of West Africa’s bonobos, perhaps our closest relatives, and has recently driven Miss Waldron’s red colobus monkey to extinction. Earth was once rich with... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of "Proconsul, by Alan Walker Publisher Comments "Proconsul" have profound implications for the very definition of humanness. This book speaks not only of an ape in a tree but also of the ape in our tree.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe: A Tribute to Five Decades of Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments A great deal has happened since the publication of Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe in 1999. Most recently, endeavors at the Gombe field site have included landmark research related to AIDS progression; establishing programs to improve sanitation, health... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World by Dario Maestripieri Publisher Comments Judged by population size and distribution, homo sapiens are clearly the most successful primates. A close second, however, would be rhesus macaques, who have adapted to (and thrived in) such diverse environments as mountain forests, dry grasslands, and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Nearly Human: The Gorilla's Guide to Good Living by Andrew Y Grant Publisher Comments Andrew Grant, former managing director of the London Zoo, draws on research, interviews and experience to illuminate hundreds of fascinating details on the wild gorilla, one of our closest relatives. Heavily illustrated with witty graphic-novel styled... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No, He's Not A Monkey, He's An Ape and He's My Son by Hester Mundis Publisher Comments This book answers the question that's on everybody's mind: What's it like to raise a chimpanzee in Manhattan? Hester Mundis's hilarious memoir NO, HE'S NOT A MONKEY, HE'S AN APE AND HE'S MY SON is the complete guide to raising a chimp in the heart of... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiography that explores her deepest beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution. NPR sponsorship.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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