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In this revised edition, de Waal expands and updates his story of the Arnhem colony of chimpanzees. De Waal reminds readers through his account of the chimps' sexual rivalries and coalitions, and intelligent rather than instinctual actions, that the roots of politics are older than humanity.
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Paperback, 235 pages
Published
April 10th 2000
by Johns Hopkins University Press
(first published 1982)
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Сред изследователите отдавна има спор за причината, поради която се е развила човешката интелигентност. Защо изведнъж (в еволюционен план - едва за милион години) един вид примати са станали толкова умни, при условие, че и преди са се оправяли чудесно и като цяло огромната част от другите животни, без грамадния фронтален лоб, който харчи огромно количество енергия и прави децата ни ужасяващо трудни за раждане и безпомощни години след това?
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Когато, преди 4-5 века, Николо Макиавели е описвал механизмите на придобиване, укрепване и задържане на властта, спокойно може да приемем, че е имал предвид и шимпанзетата, освен някакви си там Медичи и Борджии. След като прекарва 6 години (1975-81) в наблюдение на най-голямата колония шимпанзета в плен (зоологическата градина в Арнем, Холандия), де Ваал издава "Chimpanzee politics"- първата си и (може би) най-значима книга. Социална структура, комплексност и динамика на отношенията, които по
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Frans de Waal has been named one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People. The author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory Universitys Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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“This book [...] demonstrates something we had already suspected on the grounds of the close connection between apes and man: that the social organization of chimpanzees is almost too human to be true.”
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“Harold Laswell's famous definition of politics as a social process determining "who gets what, when, and how," there can be little doubt that chimpanzees engage in it. Since in both humans and their closest relatives the process involves bluff, coalitions, and isolation tactics, a common terminology is warranted.”
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