| #2316273 in Books | 2002-06-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.60 x5.00l,.61 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | ISBN13: 9780465081721 | Condition: New | Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Well written popularized introduction|By Steven Peterson|Stanford notes his thesis thus (page xi): "Apes and humans are cut from the same evolutionary cloth; all that fundamentally distinguishes us is posture, we being upright walkers and the apes quadrupeds . . . 'Significant Others' is about the continuum between humanity and the great apes. What was once a bold line dividin|.com |Engaging, enlightening, and eloquent, Significant Others tells of our closest cousins and the scientists who study them. Author Craig B. Stanford is co-director of the Jane Goodall Research Center and knows as much as anyone about field research on
Evolutionary scientists know that the line that divides humans from other animals has grown increasingly blurry, yet many other fields, especially in the social sciences, have not really absorbed this knowledge. At the same time, the knowledge that all humans are genetically and cognitively modern has left the apes as our only true "savages." Thus if we want to learn about human nature and how we came to be as we are, we must look to the apes. In this sweeping, fres...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Significant Others | Craig Stanford. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
