Books by Frans de Waal
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review 1: Indeed it is extraordinary how the horses and sled-dogs cooperate with each other and act in unison drawing the carriage or the sled at breakneck speeds, on cross-country pathways! Especially the blind-husky, Isobel who ran the lead tandem?! In Dutch bicycle-culture, it is very c...
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review 1: It is certainly a great book in terms of animal behavior and about the quest to find the scientific basis of morality. I really enjoyed the first-hand experiences de Waal delivers, as well as the examples from the field about the relationships between the primates and even some e...
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review 1: "La edad de la empatía" es el título de este libro en castellano. Es prácticamente una continuación natural a "El mono que llevamos dentro".Analiza las razones de que seamos empáticos, o sea, el ponernos en la piel de los demás, y sus ventajas evolutivas. Y la empatía no sólo se ...
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review 1: Frans de Waal's popular books really don't differ too much from one another. He deploys the same arguments and similar data and anecdotes, but in slightly reworked fashion within different frameworks, e.g. religion, politics, philosophical views of morality. Consequently, I'd enc...
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review 1: Professor de Waal cites a number of studies to back up his points, but what I'll remember are the stories of bonobos and chimpanzees taking very "human" actions. The author is the Ronald Reagan of primatology, emphasizing his points with anecdotal evidence that is much more conv...
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review 1: Frans de Waal is a very accomplished primatologist, and in addition, he also possesses the rare gift for elegant prose. This book reinforces the growing scientific perspective that morality is not the exclusive domain of homo sapiens, and instead is a result of evolution. Indeed,...