Apes and Human Evolution

Book: Apes and Human Evolution (Look inside)
Russell H. Tuttle
Hardcover: 1056 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (February 17, 2014)

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...

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