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Peacemaking Among Primates

Franz de Waal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

1991 | New edition
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
9780140130485 (ISBN)

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Looks at the nature of aggression, violence and reconciliation among mankind's closest relatives, the primates. The book is based on the study of chimp and bonobo colonies in Dutch and American zoos. The relationships and rivalries in these colonies have implications for human behaviour.

Animal aggression, it has often been argued, proves that violence and war will always play a central role in human life, yet our closest relatives also reveal astonishing talents for making peace. In this book Frans de Waal draws on detailed observation by himself and other leading experts to create accounts of primate relationships, rivalries and reconciliations in captivity and in the wild. Each species, he reveals, has its own repertoire of peace-making strategies, none exactly like ours, yet primates can teach us an immense amount about human hierarchies and homosexuality and even about such highly charged issues as child abuse and incest. Above all they show that our conciliatory gestures and desire for peace are just as "natural" as our aggressive impulses; if only we can learn to accept both sides of ourselves, we may yet achieve some of our hopes for a better world.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.1991
Reihe/Serie	Penguin social sciences
Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 197 mm
Gewicht	298 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-13	9780140130485 / 9780140130485
Zustand	Neuware