Our Inner Ape: a Leading Primatologist Explains Whe We Are Who We Are
Frans de Waal (2006)

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Humans and apes share a host of traits. But not all of these parallels are so appealing: the chimpanzee, for example, can be as vicious and manipulative as any human.
In Our Inner Ape, Frans de Waal, one of the world's great primatologists and a renowned expert on social behavior in apes, presents the provocative idea that our noblest qualities - genorisity, kindness, altruism - are as much a part of our nature as are our baser instincts. After all, we share them with another primate: the lesser-known bonobo.