Mama's last hug : animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves /
A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and other species. And he makes the radical proposal that emotions are like organs. We don't have a single organ that other animals don't have, and the same is true for our emotions. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 326 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393635065 0393635066 |