Mama's Last Hug

Frans de Waal has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. The author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory University’s Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Frans de Waal

页数:336

出版时间:2019-3

价格:USD 27.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780393635065

图书标签:科普動物行為學荷蘭科学演化歐洲情绪

New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.

Mama’s Last Hug opens with the dramatic farewell between Mama, a dying fifty-nine-year-old chimpanzee matriarch, and biologist Jan Van Hooff. This heartfelt final meeting of two longtime friends, widely shared as a video, offers a window into how deep and instantly recognizable these bonds can be. So begins Frans de Waal’s whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on his renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates.

De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama’s life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and other species. And he makes the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we don’t have a single organ that other animals don’t have, and the same is true for our emotions.

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用有趣的动物行为学研究观察的例子以及对动物前沿的认知，探讨动物各种emotions的实质、过去biased科学观念，让我们更清楚了解人类与动物的差别并不大，作为科普读物写法通俗面向大众。

我们和动物一样都有情绪，我们和动物的情绪是极其相似的。人类之所以复杂是因为人是用语言创造了感情。其实只是情绪的一个副产品而已。所以比起人类来，动物更为真挚。

我们和动物一样都有情绪，我们和动物的情绪是极其相似的。人类之所以复杂是因为人是用语言创造了感情。其实只是情绪的一个副产品而已。所以比起人类来，动物更为真挚。

我们和动物一样都有情绪，我们和动物的情绪是极其相似的。人类之所以复杂是因为人是用语言创造了感情。其实只是情绪的一个副产品而已。所以比起人类来，动物更为真挚。

I don’t know in how much degree that is it a common sense but I would love to sit down and read through it when I get a change. 想看看他的科研态度