Hahn, Emily. On the Side of the Apes

Title

On the Side of the Apes: What Man's Closest Relatives Are Teaching us About Ourselves

Author

Hahn, Emily

Publisher

Arena Books, New York

Year

1972

ISBN

0-515-02784-7 (paperback)

Illustrations

photographs

Bibliography

Selected Bibliography

Index

Index

Pages

335

Categories

Apes, Primates, Laboratory Animals, Behavior, Chimpanzees

Language

American English (en-US)

From the Book Cover

Meet our cousins the apes—loving, playing, sulking, scheming—our nearest non-human relatives. With a delightful wit and informality Miss Hahn introduces some of her favorite primates—the chimpanzee named Washoe who learned how to "talk" with deaf children though sign language—the mischievous Lucy who could unlock any door in her foster parents' home—the rock-'n-roll monkeys who perform a wild dance accompanied by the beat of their own clay drums.
It's all part of a program to learn more about ourselves. Through the study of apes, scientists have contributed to research on cancer, drug addiction, alcoholism, sleep, allergy, and even such subjects as thought and language. This intriguing book shows that we may find many answers to questions of human nature on the side of the apes.

My Summary

This is a history of using apes and monkeys as laboratory animals in the U.S., therefore nothing for an antivivisectionist with a weak stomach.

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