Living Planet Book Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees, (Paperback)

from puckrobin

This book quite literally altered how I see humanity, how I see our responsibility as a race to each other and to all other creatures on the planet, and what hope I have for humanity and our world. Fouts' memoir of the time he spent studying, working with, observing and developing close personal ...

from porte01

Really great - totally engrossing look at our closest genetic relatives - the chimpanzee, and the amazing bond we share with language (and emotion). Really changes your outlook on what really separates (or doesn't) humans from the other great apes, and perhaps other mammals as well. Really loved ...

from LibraryCin

4.5 stars Roger Fouts was a psychology student in the late 1960s when he got a job helping with a chimpanzee, Washoe, to study whether or not chimps could learn human language by way of ASL (American Sign Language). Despite that he really wanted/planned to work with kids, this began decades of r...

from puckrobin

This book quite literally altered how I see humanity, how I see our responsibility as a race to each other and to all other creatures on the planet, and what hope I have for humanity and our world. Fouts' memoir of the time he spent studying, working with, observing and developing close personal ...

from LoriFox

I love this book. To look into the eyes of a chimpanzee is to see ourselves looking back at us. The differences between our species and our culture are bridged as we recognize our shared similarities via culture, language, took making, and emotions. We are them. They are us. We must embrace our f...