Radical new view of human society, relating the biochemical and biological changes in animals that result from stresses such as food shortages and overcrowding to the rise and fall of human civilisations. Discusses guinea pig and primate behaviour under stress, and the mechanisms that control animal and human populations. The author has also written TCutting Edge'.
"It takes issue with much of the conventional wisdom in business thinking, such as the central role of marketing, the need for secrecy and the focus on price. Instead, it stresses the importance of personal values in driving success"--Back cover.
Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans—threatens to become a reality within just a few human generations. We are on the verge of losing the last links to our evolutionary past, and to all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them. The crisis we face is tantamount to standing aside while our last extended family members vanish from the planet. Stanford sees great apes as not only intelligent but also possessed of a culture: both toolmakers and social beings capable of passing cultural knowledge down through generations. Compelled by his field research to take up the cause of conservation, he is unequivocal about where responsibility for extinction of these species lies. Our extermination campaign against the great apes has been as brutal as the genocide we have long practiced on one another. Stanford shows how complicity is shared by people far removed from apes’ shrinking habitats. We learn about extinction’s complex links with cell phones, European meat eaters, and ecotourism, along with the effects of Ebola virus, poverty, and political instability. Even the most environmentally concerned observers are unaware of many specific threats faced by great apes. Stanford fills us in, and then tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future.
This friendly snake is very hungry! Come along as he tries to solve his craving for just the right meal that will not only satisfy his empty tummy, but also give young readers a fun story they will want to tell again and again. As soon as the last page is read, children beg to act the story out, taking turns as the hungry snake, the grasshopper, or the many animals the snake meets along the way. Children can use their creativity to come up with different animals and what they kindly offer the hungry snake to try. This book is perfect for teaching, sharing, and creativity during family time, at home or in the car. It is also a great addition to learning in the classroom!
In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are essentially killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings. Situating humans in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright, how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of human culture—speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures, and moral codes—are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape niches. This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to be discovered about human and ape potential.
Why questions? What explanations? -- Causality and persons -- Authority and experience -- The grid of perception -- Action in and on a world -- A social aesthetics -- Valence and habit -- Fields and games -- Explanations explained.
In this volume, Robert J. Sternberg and David D. Preiss bring together different perspectives on understanding the impact of various technologies on human abilities, competencies, and expertise. The inclusive range of historical, comparative, sociocultural, cognitive, educational, industrial/organizational, and human factors approaches will stimula
The world soul in this book means an entity, quite distinct from the dead body, which exist after death. The inquiry about soul in this book based on relevant scientific discoveries, especially those of the 20th century, and the facts of nature, which all human beings can observe by themselves. It is a very important subject for every one's life. If the an nalysis of soul in this book is correct, it can help bring more peace and happiness to everyone, both during the remainder of this life and in future lieves