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Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals
Nathan H. Lents
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Description for Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JMR; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold funerals for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves miss each other, elephants grieve for their dead, and prairie dogs name the humans they encounter. Human and animal behavior is not as different as once believed. In Not So Different, the biologist Nathan H. Lents argues that the same evolutionary forces of cooperation ... Read more
Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold funerals for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves miss each other, elephants grieve for their dead, and prairie dogs name the humans they encounter. Human and animal behavior is not as different as once believed. In Not So Different, the biologist Nathan H. Lents argues that the same evolutionary forces of cooperation ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231178327
SKU
V9780231178327
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About Nathan H. Lents
Nathan H. Lents is professor of molecular biology and director of the biology and cell and molecular biology programs at John Jay College of the City University of New York. His work has been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular Cell, and the American Journal of Physiology, as well as the Journal of College Science Teaching and the ... Read more
Reviews for Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals
Not So Different lucidly and entertainingly reminds us just how much of us there is in other mammals and vertebrates-and how much of them there is in us. You may never think of yourself in quite the same way again.
Ian Tattersall, American Museum of Natural History In a beautifully written and very readable book, Nathan H. Lents provides ... Read more
Ian Tattersall, American Museum of Natural History In a beautifully written and very readable book, Nathan H. Lents provides ... Read more