The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

Great service.The Amazon.com is the best library in the world ( even for French and German languages). The book is very controversial, but interesting. I believe not in Darwin neither in old semitic books histories, however, since the psychology has a long, long way before it becomes a science, studying the behavioral patterns of the animals is the only accessible way to understand a bit our own nature. Please be aware, that the author keeps a complete silence about the human mental world, which represents not a less tangible reality for our deeds than the real world where we struggle for physical survival. Indeed, only the human can (and often do) accept great sufferences and death for imagined reasons, the reasons whose roots are not in the rational and biological but in the irrational, imagined, inspired, sacredly revealed... Strange enough that a such an eminant classical scholar as Walter Burkert in his CREATION OF THE SACRED holds the same position, asserting that everything, even the sacred is explainable by the scientific approach. It reminds me a little a philosophy of shop-keepers : ... great and beautiful things are hard to acquire and very distant, then keep yourself close to the reality: a piece of bread, warm shelter and healthy spouse... In other words " The thruth is good but the happiness is better". Nevertheless, this work is strongly recommended for its cristal clear reasoning, lucide language and very rich observation material.

Mit schonungsloser, fast radikaler Ehrlichkeit und Klarheit werden Euphemismen und Romantisierungen unserer Spezies aus dem Weg geräumt. Die zoologische Sicht reduziert das menschliche Verhalten präzise auf seinen Kern, um tabuisierte Fakten und verborgene Zusammenhänge aufzuzeigen und rational zu erklären. Auch heute noch eines der besten Bücher zu diesem Thema.

Libro stupendo che ti apre un mondo sull'evoluzione e sulla specie umana! Lo consiglio a tutti

i read this twice as i wanted to extract everything on this book, some will catch it from the first read others like me from the second but dont know if it should have more reads than that , i mean is super easy to read and understand i think i just wanted more haha, love the subject love the approach to undesrtand what are we humans

Loved the book and it's writing. Great for feeding your intellect. The quality of the paperback received was good.