Assorted Monkey

Fascinating... A feast full of provocative science and interesting trivia... (Today)

Who are we from an animal perspective? We are undoubtedly intelligent – but compared to what? We're obsessed with mating, and our males behave very differently from our females. Is man a predator, like lions or bears, or does he always have to watch his back, like gazelles and rabbits? No doubt, we communicate a lot, but parrots and prairie dogs do it too.

A person takes pleasure in examining himself. Neither the giraffe nor the beaded lizard spends its time watching its neighbors with its hand on its chin. We, but only us, want to know where the child and the chipmunk cover themselves, where they differ... While the loons are sitting by the lake, the lions are sunbathing, my brain continues to direct me to do something and make a movement, I am an active monkey...

The Asortic Monkey, or Homo sapiens, is a strange mammal. They mate remarkably frequently and with unprecedented enthusiasm. It eats with similar enthusiasm, endangering its health, a behavior that does not occur in wild animals. While human beings draw the boundaries of their territory with gates, they see themselves as complex, intelligent and superior to other animals in every respect.

With a humorous, modest and impressive understanding, Hannah Holmes turns the inquisitive eye of a trained researcher to herself, not only to herself, but to our entire species, in Shakespeare's words, "the crown jewel of living things." In this surprising, humorous, and instructive book, Holmes explores how the human animal—the Asortic Ape that gives its name to the book—adapts to the natural world even as it changes that world both constructively and destructively.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 464

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yurt Kitap Publishing

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Pages: 464

Language Turkish