Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
by Frans de Waal | 
Primates and Philosophers
by Frans de Waal | 
The Ape and the Sushi Master
by Frans de Waal | 
The Third Chimpanzee
by Jared Diamond | 
The Story of the Human Body
by Daniel Lieberman |
The Human Story
by Robin Dunbar | 
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
by Charles Darwin |
Chimpanzee Politics
by Frans de Waal | 
Paleofantasy
by Marlene Zuk | 
Why Is Sex Fun?
by Jared Diamond |
Human Evolution
by Bernard Wood | 
The Red Queen
by Matt Ridley |
The Book of Humans
by Adam Rutherford | 
The Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin | 
The Tangled Tree
by David Quammen | 
The Scars of Evolution
by Elaine Morgan | 
The Origins of Virtue
by Matt Ridley | 
Monkeyluv
by Robert M. Sapolsky | 
Masters of the Planet
by Ian Tattersall |
On Aggression
by Konrad Lorenz |
From a scientist and writer E.O. Wilson has called "the world authority on primate social behavior" comes a fascinating look at the most provocative aspects of human nature through our two closest cousins in the ape family. From "one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior" (Desmond Morris) comes a look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our closest cousins. For nearly twenty years, Frans De Waal has studied both the famously aggressive chimpanzee and the egalitarian, matriarchal bonobo, two species whose DNA is nearly identical to ours. The result is an engrossing narrative that reveals what their behavior can teach us about ourselves.