Significant Others

by Stanford, Craig B.

• ISBN13: 9780465081714
• ISBN10: 0465081711
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

What the family connection between apes and humans really means

Author Biography

Craig Stanford is Co-Director of the Jane Goodall Research Center, Director of the Bwindi-Impenetrable Great Ape Project in Bwindi-Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction: Five Cherished Myths of Human Origins	p. 1
Love, Death, and Food
Apes from Mars and Venus	p. 21
You Are What You Eat	p. 31
Let Us Prey	p. 47
The Handmaid's Tale	p. 61
The Infanticide Wars	p. 77
Natal Attractions	p. 91
Culture, Language, and the Trouble with Evolutionary Psychology
Got Culture?	p. 109
Machiavelli's Uncle Was a Monkey	p. 121
The Nature of Nurture	p. 139
The Silliest Debate	p. 151
Islands in the Human Sea
Gorillas Without Borders	p. 165
In the Field	p. 177
Islands in the Human Sea	p. 189
The Ape's Gift	p. 203
Notes	p. 209
References	p. 219
Index	p. 230
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