Primates


In the Shadow of Man
Gorillas in the Mist
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
One Gorilla
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
Marshall Sahlins
Apes do evidently understand what others are doing, and they can prudently do the same, in which sense they "cooperate"—for their own reasons. But they lack the ability to symbolically par­ticipate in others' existence and thus communalize their own. [...] "Traditional models of economic decision-making assume that peo­ple are self-interested rational maximizers. Empirical research has demonstrated, however, that people will take into account the inter­est of others and are sensitive to norms o ...more
Marshall Sahlins, What Kinship Is-And Is Not

Lisa Kemmerer
Might does not make right; self-interest—even desperate self-interest—does not justify exploiting others.
Lisa Kemmerer, Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

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