Not so different : finding human nature in animals

Not so different : finding human nature in animals /

Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lents, Nathan H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Animal behavior.
Psychology, Comparative.
Psychology, Comparative
NATURE > Animal Rights.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.
Animal behavior
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Emotions, drive, and the brain
  • 1. Why do we play?
  • 2. Animal systems of justice
  • 3. Moral animals
  • 4. Sexual politics
  • 5. Do animals fall in love?
  • 6. The agony of grief
  • 7. Jealous beasts : the dark side of love
  • 8. Darker still : envy, greed, and power
  • 9. Afraid of the dark
  • 10. The richness of animal communication
  • Epilogue. Metacognition, self-awareness, and the mind.

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