Mama's last hug : animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves / Frans de Waal ; with photographs and drawings by the author.
2019
QL785.27 .W33 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
Mama's last hug : animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves / Frans de Waal ; with photographs and drawings by the author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393635065 (hardcover)
0393635066 (hardcover)
0393635066 (hardcover)
Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Language
English
Description
viii, 326 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
QL785.27 .W33 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
599.885/15
Summary
A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's renowned 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 -- Adapted from publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-304) and index.
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Table of Contents
Mama's last hug: an ape matriarch's farewell
Window to the soul: when primates laugh and smile
Body to body: empathy and sympathy
Emotions that make us human: disgust, shame, guilt, and other discomforts
Will to power: politics, murder, warfare
Emotional intelligence: on fairness and free will
Sentience: what animals feel
Conclusion.
Window to the soul: when primates laugh and smile
Body to body: empathy and sympathy
Emotions that make us human: disgust, shame, guilt, and other discomforts
Will to power: politics, murder, warfare
Emotional intelligence: on fairness and free will
Sentience: what animals feel
Conclusion.