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Our Inner Ape: The Dual Nature of Man

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Our Inner Ape: The Dual Nature of Man
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Frans de Waal, one of the world's foremost primatologists, focuses on the evolutionary origins of human nature, its duality and biological roots. De Waal examines four key aspects of our nature - the desire for power, the need for sex, the propensity for acts of violence and acts of kindness - and, based on years of observation of great apes, proves that all of these are fully characteristic of them. In his work he argues in favor of the idea of man as a social animal, a "bipolar ape", equally similar to the aggressive, competitive chimpanzees and empathic hedonistic bonobos. Without ignoring the downside of human nature, de Waal pays special attention to its positive, moral manifestations and how the two combine and complement each other, being equally important for the evolution of our species and for the survival of civilization as a whole.
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