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“Fascinating . . . This important and illuminating book should help our own species take [a] lesson in civility to heart.”—The New York Times Book Review “An enlightening look at ourselves”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"[An] excellent book . . . This is a rarity, a superb scientist producing an excellent book for non-specialists . . . De Waal covers [his topic] with great wisdom and subtlety . . . This should be required reading for the opinionated cousins (or better yet, world leaders) whose ancient encounters with Robert Ardrey or Konrad Lorenz have led them to believe what kind of ape we are."—Nature“De Waal demonstrates why he is the current Alpha Male of American primatology. Decades of cutting-edge research on apes (and monkeys too) lend vibrancy to his words, and authority to his conclusions”—BookSlut.com "De Waal offers vivid, often delightful stories of politics, sex, violence and kindness in the ape communities he has studied . . . Readers might be surprised at how much these apes and their stories resonate with their own lives, and may well be left with an urge to spend a few hours watching primates themselves at the local zoo."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Fascinating and enlightening: It's hard not to conclude that, in many ways, apes may be wiser than their upright relatives."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"For more than a quarter-century Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal has been unlocking the uncanny parallels between [chimp] behavior and our own . . . Our Inner Ape is filled with fascinating examples of how human behavior can be explained by our ape ancestors."—Outside Magazine"An informative and engaging work."—Library Journal"De Waal is perhaps the most literate, entertaining, and soulful of the cognitive ethologists."—Los Angeles Times"De Waal is an original thinker and writes with such a light hand that the reader can take a stimulating ride through his imaginative philosophical discourse."—Boston Globe"A new book on the human species by de Waal, one of the world's great experts on primate behavior, is an eagerly awaited publishing event.  By turning his binoculars on the human species, he provides us with a revealing picture of the inner ape—what lies inside each and every one of us."—Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape"Frans de Waal is uniquely placed to write a book on the duality of human nature and on its biological origins in the other primate species.  No other book has attempted to cover this ground.  Few topics are as timely to the understanding of the human mind and behavior."—Antonio R. Damasio, author of Descartes' Error"One of the important disciplines that is generating new knowledge about human nature is primatology.  Frans de Waal is the best-qualified scientist not just to describe the results of this research, but to draw out a balanced understanding of what it implies about contemporary politics and social policy."—Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last Man

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About the Author

Frans de Waal is a Dutch-born biologist who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. One of the world's best-known primatologists, de Waal is C. H. Candler professor of psychology and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. In 2007, Time selected him as one of the World's 100 Most Influential People.

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Product details

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: Riverhead Books; Reprint edition (August 1, 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1594481962

ISBN-13: 978-1594481963

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.3 out of 5 stars

71 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#195,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This book has a lot of terrific information on apes which comes mainly in the form of first hand stories observed by Waal. He clearly has a deep understanding of chimps and bonobos.When the author generalizes about ape behavior, he hits the mark, with great insight. The second chapter on power, I found to be particularly well done. (A friend of mine, an author, told me, lead with the strongest stuff, most people don't make it through an entire book).Another big selling point of this book is Waal has solid technical skill as a writer. His prose is clear, simple, and enjoyable to read.The main problem I had with this book is when Waal waxes philosophical, about human nature and politics. His analysis is frequently mundane and sometimes just wrong.Here's an example. He writes, "No sane person would risk his life for a minute of televised glory." Out of all people, Waal should see how silly such a statement is. Earlier in the book he even talked about how men were risk takers. That glory could be the difference between a man leaving no offspring, and leaving many.There is also a subtle yet clear political bent to his message. He asks, "Will we go for all-out competition or will we do the HUMANE thing?" Take this statement in conjunction with his earlier story where he tried to show Reagan is a deranged psychopath liar. Waal seems to have a typical leftist academic bent. Okay, maybe that would be fine. The problem is, he doesn't even understand what he is arguing against. A Conservative would argue that the "all-out competition" of the last half a century, with capitalism, has been the most HUMANE thing we've ever seen, lifting countless people out of poverty. But Waal doesn't acknowledge that. Waal also fails to understand that you can have people acting HUMANE without the government forcing them to do it.My biggest disappointment with this book is his chapter on sex and bonobos. Waal explains how bonobos are as close to humans as chimps, and also, that women bonobos are in control of the male bonobos.This would have been a fantastic point to re-evaluate human behavior. Maybe the near-universal understanding that men control society is something of a myth? I thought the whole point of his book was to evaluate human behavior through his insights on apes.Nope. Waal doesn't re-consider whether parts of the political correct "patriarchy" are a myth. He affirms them without a second though. This is even more shocking in light of the fact that even his patriarchal chimps belie much about what humans know to be true about patriarchy.For instance, if men are in such control, why are there twice as many women chimps as men chimps? Humans have a hard time squaring males dominating society, males benefiting from this arrangement, and males dying sooner.And how do groups of women regularly control the alpha male chimp, as Waal himself explains, if we live in a simple patriarchy?Waal never considers the most interesting, and unpolitically correct implications of his work. A shame.Still though, there is much to learn here.

Very good stuff.. The book has good lessons for humans to learn:1) Who are we and where do we come from? We are not so unique as we think we are. A good book to get your ego in a better perspective.2) Where are we going to? BY thinking that our inner ape is top of the pop and nothing else matters; we do forget all these beautiful gifts of nature around us. They should get out of our way so we can multiply up to 10 billion and put them our near relatives into zoos, red lists and history books.But however one wonders if these descriptions of some imprisoned individuals give a true picture of the interactions between apes like observing the behavior of a prison male population would not present a good picture of people. Is there a role and function of a Gamma male for instance.

This is more a comment following reading this remarkable book than a thorough review, I don't have much to add to the other positive reviews of this remarkable book, often invaluable insights, clearly and accessibly written, often funny, perhaps the most constructive book so far this century. Hard to find fault but I think I may have one, he focuses on the polarity between our "nice" peaceful, egalitarian, cooperative, sharing side & our "nasty" violent, competitive, hierarchical, selfish side, advocating wisely the happy medium or a hybrid of the two is best and most realistic.But he doesn't say much at all about another major player in human affairs, which is neither "evil" nor "good": plain stupidity. His book was published in 2005, far as I know no one has taken his excellent advice, why? Could be stupidity. He spends so much time trying to point out how apes are as clever as us in many ways it probably wouldn't have worked if he'd also argued man is the stupidest animal ever "the only animal that can't tell fantasy from reality" as the bestselling shrink Dr Al Bernstein put it ( he also states, again somewhat humorously, we are likely to oppose or dismiss evidence, no matter how strong, that we might not be perfect unless we are depressed, a bit of a problem for the truth, it's interesting many (most?) of the great philosophers suffered depression) .So what is human stupidity? Not sure, probably partly the need for males to be rather oblivious/attracted to danger in order to hunt, explore etc in early societies which he talks about. It's not clear being rather indifferent to your and others welfare is still beneficial in modern society. This indifference is probably achieved at least partly through an ability to focus exclusively on one small aspect of a situation (such as "the kill" in a hunt) a stereotyped male trait (women "multi-taskers"), marked feature of autism (much more common in males as De Waal notes) and a hallmark of industrial society with it's hyper-specialization.The reason this makes us the stupidest animal is we have magnified our powers to that of gods, through countless innovations and inventions (at least industrial scientific man has, which is virtually everyone now) but by comparison are only slightly smarter than other apes and still unconsciously act on much the same instincts and tendencies (as our economy/environment becomes more desire/addiction based (Thompson. The Fix 2012) we may actually be getting even dumber than other apes in the sense of being more impulsive, despite the rising I.Q. (attributed to increased problem-solving, having more problems is not exactly a clear indication your house is in order)). We bite off far more than we can possibly chew (create problems too big & complicated to be solved with our intelligence & presumably instincts (usually because of narrow focus we think everything's super)) this is unique in the animal kingdom as far as I know, although I understand it is not unusual for a species to be responsible for it's own extinction in other ways. I don't know if there's a solution, the smaller scale, simpler, community units he advocates at the end (modest scale & complexity for our modest intelligence) might help but can we get there from here? Can Humpty be put back together again?Another variant of stupidity seem to stem from ego, again I seem to have noticed more in us males. Big egos get over confident and think they can do no wrong, result :stupidity. Scientists who invariably want to "change the world" for no absolutely no reason other than to become the alpha male, with reckless, basically autistic (a scientific finding), disregard for the likelihood their invention will just be another nail in the coffin of the planet is just one example (e.g., advances that increase the human population, such as the sacred goal of "a cure for cancer" may contribute to the extinction of our and other species through overpopulation. Or Einstein would be the stupidest person in history so far, as he either didn't realize or didn't care his means of achieving primate dominance would be responsible for the atom bomb) I think this is hierarchy related, a big ego seem to result from thinking you're at the top, might be the rich list, might be delusions about attractiveness, coolness, moral &/or racial superiority.Also insecurity at being toward the bottom of a hierarchy produces panic which leads to stupid 'thinking' in my opinion. I don't recall if de Waal writes about this, but another primate writer, Mazur, does (Biosociology of Dominance and Deference) noting those low in primate hierarchies are anxious, those higher up are usually calm. In my opinion there is a epidemic of insecurity in modern society, perhaps because the inequality is astronomical with globalism, I think this afflicts us males more as we need to display dominance to attract a mate, a female merely needs to mate with an "alpha" being lower in the hierarchy usually makes a female more attractive..Balancing hierarchy with more egalitarian institutions as de Waal suggests might go a long way to healing this painful affliction, but it's not clear to me we are smart enough to do anything of the sort & most insecure men probably wouldn't be interested, better to play or watch some game where they can fantasize about being dominant.I'm not suggesting we are completely stupid at all, just that's a player in our make-up that just could get the last word.........maybe the book has depressed me because it's so balanced, we're as good (depending on your perspective) as we are evil ( according to whatever that perspective happens to be) so why care either way about the fate of humanity? I suppose if you really don't care either way you won't have to suffer depression, you'll be emotionally neutral, like the neutral face people usually wear in public places.

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