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Language
English
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"A controversial, idea-driven book that challenges everything you know about sex, marriage, family, and society"--Provided by publisher.
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. But this narrative is collapsing. Here, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, while debunking almost everything we "know" about sex, offer a bold alternative explanation. Ryan and Jethá's central contention...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by her popular Wild Thing podcast, journalist Laura Krantz incorporates the scientific method and her journalistic skills to determine if Bigfoot is real. When journalist Laura Krantz discovered that her long-lost cousin, Grover Krantz, a distinguished anthropologist and professor at Washington State University, had devoted much of his career to the search for Bigfoot, she couldn't quite believe it. A natural skeptic and a strong believer...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces gorillas, describing their physical features, what they eat, where they live, and how they care for their young.
5) The hot zone
Author
Series
Dark biology volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
xiii, 300 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Evangeline Mudd adventures volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
196 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Evangeline Mudd's primatologist parents travel without her to the Ikkinasti Jungle to study the golden-haired apes, Evangeline and the world-famous Dr. Aphrodite Pikkaflee are eventually called upon to rescue the Mudds and save the jungle from the evil schemes of Aphrodite's money-mad brother.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The monkeys, apes, and other animals appearing in a book, excited to be "saved" when someone opens the book to being reading it, they soon beg the reader not to close them in again.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
186 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide to the world's primates covering nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs of Madagascar to the regal mountain gorillas of Africa.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Edition
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 402, 14 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá debunk almost everything we 'know' about sex, pulling together various evidence from anthropology, primatology, archaeology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, to show how monogomy is far from human nature. The authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future illuminated by our innate capacities for love, cooperation, and generosity."--P. 4 of cover.
13) In the wild
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish/Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
43 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the work of Dr. Tara Stoinski, Dr. Thomas Butynski, and other zoo biologists dedicated to saving earth's endangered species"--Provided by publisher.
14) Smithy
Author
Series
Smithy novels volume 1
Publisher
Inkshares
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
519 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the tumultuous summer of 1974, in the shadowy rooms of a rundown mansion in Rhode Island, renowned psychologist Dr. Piers Preis-Herald brings together a group of seven collegiate researchers to study the inner lives of man's closest relative--the primate. They set out to teach their subject, who would eventually be known to the world as Smithy, American Sign Language. But as the summer deepens and the history of the mansion manifests, the messages...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other...
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