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Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in April 1934 in Hampstead, London, [7] to businessman Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall [] (1907–2001) and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph (1906–2000), [8] a novelist from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, [9] who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall.
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal is a 1991 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author explores concepts relating to the animal origins of human behavior. The book follows a series of articles published by Diamond, a physiologist, examining the evidence and its interpretation ...
Chimpanzees have been described as highly territorial and will frequently kill other chimpanzees, [98] although Margaret Power wrote in her 1991 book The Egalitarians that the field studies from which the aggressive data came, Gombe and Mahale, used artificial feeding systems that increased aggression in the chimpanzee populations studied.
Page information; Cite this page ... Apes and the Origins of Human Violence is a 1996 book by Richard Wrangham and Dale ... the authors contrast chimpanzee behaviors ...
The Mind of an Ape is a 1983 book by David Premack and Ann James Premack. The authors argue that it is possible to teach language to (non-human) great apes.They write: "We now know that someone who comprehends speech must know language, even if he or she cannot produce it."
Formerly the bonobo was known as the "pygmy chimpanzee", despite the bonobo having a similar body size to the common chimpanzee. The name "pygmy" was given by the German zoologist Ernst Schwarz in 1929, who classified the species on the basis of a previously mislabeled bonobo cranium, noting its diminutive size compared to chimpanzee skulls.
Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal (29 October 1948 – 14 March 2024) was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist.He was the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory, [1] and author of numerous books including ...
Wrangham is known predominantly for his work in the ecology of primate social systems, the evolutionary history of human aggression (in his 1996 book with Dale Peterson, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence and his 2019 work The Goodness Paradox), and his research in cooking (summarized in his book, Catching Fire: How Cooking ...