Chimpanzee: Lessons from our Sister Species
Cambridge University Press, 8/20/2020
EAN 9781107118591, ISBN10: 110711859X
Hardcover, 592 pages, 25.1 x 19.6 x 3 cm
Language: English
The chimpanzee is one of our planet's best-loved and most instantly recognisable animals. Splitting from the human lineage between four and six million years ago, it is (along with its cousin, the bonobo) our closest living relative, sharing around 94% of our DNA. First encountered by Westerners in the seventeenth century, virtually nothing was known about chimpanzees in their natural environment until 1960, when Jane Goodall travelled to Gombe to live and work with them. Accessibly written, yet fully referenced and uncompromising in its accuracy and comprehensiveness, this book encapsulates everything we currently know about chimpanzees: from their discovery and why we study them, to their anatomy, physiology, genetics and culture. The text is beautifully illustrated and infused with examples and anecdotes drawn from the author's thirty years of primate observation, making this a perfect resource for students of biological anthropology and primatology as well as non-specialists interested in chimpanzees.
1. Sister's keeper
humans and chimpanzees
2. Wild lesson
why study animals in nature?
3. A most surprising creature
the discovery of the chimpanzee
4. Kin
the chimpanzee's place in nature
5. Scratching out a living in an unforgiving world
habitat and diet
6. Guts, glorious guts, large stomach and colon
7. Thews, sinews and bone
chimpanzee anatomy and osteology
8. Arboreal gathering, terrestrial traveling
locomotion and posture
9. Forged in nature's cauldron
engineering the chimpanzee
10. Up from the protoape
the evolution of the chimpanzee
11. Building a natural wonder
growth, development and life history
12. The source of similarity
chimpanzee genetics
13. Making your way in the great wild world
chimpanzee senses
14. The grim reaper in the forest primeval
wild chimpanzee diseases and lessons for healthy living
15. Powering life
physiology and endocrinology
16. Shelter from the storm
chimpanzee mothering
17. Meat seeking missiles
chimpanzees as hunters
18. The mind of the chimpanzee
reasoning, memory and emotion
19. The brain of the chimpanzee
the mind's motor
20. Tired nature's sweet restorer
chimpanzee sleep
21. Chimpanzee thought transfer
communication and language
22. Ape implements
making and using tools
23. Wisdom of the ages
chimpanzee culture
24. The daily grind
within-group aggression
25. A nation at war with itself
defending a community of the mind
26. The sporting chimpanzee
dominance without destruction
27. The passion of Pan
sex and reproduction
28. Into the light
Semliki chimpanzees
29. The other sister, bonobos
the monkey convergence hypothesis
30. Sister species
lessons from the chimpanzee
Appendix 1. Primate taxonomy
Appendix 2. Professional grade chimpanzee
Index.