A unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives, and the development of primatology as a discipline This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind\'s relationship to the Great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present.
Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces twists and turns in our construction of primate knowledge over five hundred yea.
A unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives, and the development of primatology as a discipline This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind\'s relationship to the Great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present
