Close Friends and Relatives Unknown - 2008

Hachette, Australia, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Humans and chimpanzees share 96 per cent of the same DNA, yet how do we view our closest biological relatives?Our relationship with apes is recorded as far back as Aristotle, and various mentions appear in the Bible. Yet despite the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution in 1859, very little factual scientific information was known about chimpanzees until the early part of last century, when psychologists Wolfgang K hler and Robert Yerkes conducted a study focused specifically on the intellectual abilities of chimpanzees. K hler eventually concluded in Mentality of Apes, published in 1925, that: 'Chimpanzees manifest intelligent behaviour of the general kind familiar in human beings ... a type of behaviour which counts as specifically human.'Close Friends & Relatives is a heart-warming and thought-provoking portrait of primates from multi-award-winning photographer Bob Elsdale. Quantity… Leer más

Australia: Hachette Australia, 2008 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown..

Hachette, Sydney, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. New Book/New. Size: Octavo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Animals & Photography; ISBN/EAN: 9780733623547. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 100123. . 9780733623547 This book is extra heavy, and will involve extra shipping charges outside of Australia. .