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"We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars or test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes."

An astronaut who crash lands on a distant planet where intelligent apes rule, is befriended by a sympathetic chimpanzee and leads a band of apes and humans towards a sacred temple within the Forbidden Zone that holds the key to the past.

This book helps you discover the exciting world of chimps, gorillas, orangutans, bonobos and more, with over 200 pictures. The lifestyles, environments and physical characteristics of great apes are captured in accessible text, dramatic wildlife photographs and detailed illustrations. You can visit remote but threatened habitats, from the misty mountains of Africa to the dark and dappled rainforests of South-east Asia. Focus features zoom in on detailed...

In this retelling of H.A. and Margret Rey's "Curious George," an ape tries to return to the jungle after being exploited by a man in a funny hat.

"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,...

During experiments to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, a genetically-enhanced chimpanzee uses its greater intelligence to lead other apes to freedom.

"Where do apes live? How do they communicate? Find out through some face-to-face encounters."--Cover back.

An orphaned human baby is adopted by a family of gorillas.