Grooming the Space Monkey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grooming the Space Monkey write by Christopher Tremper. This book was released on 2021-05-22. Grooming the Space Monkey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human beings are capable of realizing an incredibly bright future, but we are an immature species (adolescents really) and our current trajectory is one leading to a fairly dismal end. While we are well equipped to elevate one another, the sad fact is that we are not incentivized, as individuals or collectively, to do so. Despite our laws and loosely imposed moral codes, we simply do not defy our incentives. Our incentives shape the way we treat one another. They shape the way we view on another. They shape our utilization of our planet. They shape our trajectory. The deep flaws in our incentives are not difficult to see, but we are not incentivized to look at them. We need to change that. We need examine them and acknowledge: How our current economic systems are ill-suited for our long-term survival and how they can be altered to serve rather than condemn us. How we have failed to craft an effective, one-size-fits-all moral code and reassess how we can do so. How our spirituality is distinct from religion and its vital importance in guiding us through our technological advancement. There is hope. We have enormous potential. We have an amazing planet. We have each other, but we need to incentivize ourselves to take advantage of our potential rather than to continue taking advantage of each other. There is a simple yet massive distinction between those things. We surely can do it, but we have to first see why it has to be done. And done soon... Grooming the Space Monkey attempts to help with that. It puts our absurdity in plain sight (and reasonably plain English) then urges us to rethink what we've come expect from each other and our cultures. It is time to grow up. We may be these great teens with all the potential in the world, but it doesn't mean a whole lot while driving 150mph... drunk and stoned... in the wrong lane... at midnight... with the headlights off.
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language write by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar. This book was released on 1996. Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here, the author examines gossip as a form of 'verbal grooming', and as a means of strengthening relationships. He challenges the idea that language developed during male activities such as hunting, and that it was actually amongst women that it evolved.
Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes
Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes write by John Chadwick-Jones. This book was released on 2000-03-02. Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this text is to draw attention to the exciting progress of contemporary studies of the social psychology of monkeys and apes. It is written with a clear style which should invite interest from a wide range of social scientists. The relatedness of humans and non-human primates that is usually considered in its genetic forms is followed through into the complex social tactics of monkeys and apes. The focus of the book is on the latest research as it has developed out of earlier classic studies. The current wave of researchers working on social topics is especially emphasised. This book will be of particular interest to primatologists, ethologists, anthropologists, zoologists, social psychologists, and students of social cognition and social interaction. For students, the appendices provide useful information on the variety of social structures of Old World and New World monkeys and apes.
The Monkey Wars
The Monkey Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Monkey Wars write by Deborah Blum. This book was released on 1995-12-14. The Monkey Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B are just a few. But we have also learned more in recent years about how intelligent apes and monkeys really are: they can speak to us with sign language, they can even play video games (and are as obsessed with the games as any human teenager). And activists have also uncovered widespread and unnecessarily callous treatment of animals by researchers (in 1982, a Silver Spring lab was charged with 17 counts of animal cruelty). It is a complex issue, made more difficult by the combative stance of both researchers and animal activists. In The Monkey Wars, Deborah Blum gives a human face to this often caustic debate--and an all-but-human face to the subjects of the struggle, the chimpanzees and monkeys themselves. Blum criss-crosses America to show us first hand the issues and personalities involved. She offers a wide-ranging, informative look at animal rights activists, now numbering some twelve million, from the moderate Animal Welfare Institute to the highly radical Animal Liberation Front (a group destructive enough to be placed on the FBI's terrorist list). And she interviews a wide variety of researchers, many forced to conduct their work protected by barbed wire and alarm systems, men and women for whom death threats and hate mail are common. She takes us to Roger Fouts's research center in Ellensburg, Washington, where we meet five chimpanzees trained in human sign language, and we visit LEMSIP, a research facility in New York State that has no barbed wire, no alarms--and no protesters chanting outside--because its director, Jan Moor-Jankowski, listens to activists with respect and treats his animals humanely. And along the way, Blum offers us insights into the many side-issues involved: the intense battle to win over school kids fought by both sides, and the danger of transplanting animal organs into humans. "As it stands now," Blum concludes, "the research community and its activist critics are like two different nations, nations locked in a long, bitter, seemingly intractable political standoff....But if you listen hard, there really are people on both sides willing to accept and work within the complex middle. When they can be freely heard, then we will have progressed to another place, beyond this time of hostilities." In The Monkey Wars, Deborah Blum gives these people their voice.
Mind the Monkeys!
Mind the Monkeys! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mind the Monkeys! write by Lawrence Whiting. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Mind the Monkeys! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lawrence Whiting has come to know the Thai monkeys of Phana very well in the seven years he has been running the Phana Monkey Project with his wife, Pensri. One of the things he has enjoyed most is the opportunity to introduce his monkey friends to so many Thai people as well as people from all over the world. He hopes that this book will enable even more people to appreciate these lovely creatures. After the monkeys had got comfortable with me… they would come up and touch my arm and then run away again. The mothers would walk up to me and set their babies down to play, and large males would bring their food and eat right next to me. They had let me into their world and I was forever changed. Chris Love, Phana Monkey Project Volunteer Observing them is interesting to see their behaviour and to see how much alike we are! Rita Cerdiera, PMP volunteer Animals have feelings, there is no doubt. Respect the monkeys, respect wildlife. Christel Gomes, PMP volunteer
