Chris Herzfeld
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This... work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankinds 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 years. Chris Herzfeld outlines the development of primatology and its key players and events, including well-known long-term field studies,...