Extended Family The Story Of Primates

In this wonderfully illustrated book, world-famous primatologist Colin Groves explores the history of popular and scientific attitudes toward nonhuman primates from ancient times to the present. Beginning with his own earliest adventures with primates at the London Zoo and in the field with Diann Fossey, Groves goes on to describe our relationships with primates in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China. He looks at the medieval notion of primates as "mock-men" and "pygmies," images of apes in the Renaissance, and later European attitudes toward our "long-lost cousins." The book explains our new understanding of primates in response to the latest scientific research and ends with a call for greater conservation lest we lose the opportunity to explore the deep biological and cultural connections that both unite and divide us.Groves, Colin is the author of 'Extended Family The Story Of Primates', published 2005 under ISBN 9781588341860 and ISBN 1588341860.