A review by ekendall
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal

2.0

It was hard for me to focus on De Waal’s main thesis here because I was blinded by the ignorant, inaccurate, and shockingly irresponsible portrayal of chimpanzees as mean, selfish, calculating, bloodthirsty hellbeasts. Just a single aside to point out that chimps have plenty of admirable qualities as well would have sufficed, but De Waal seemed too busy stroking his own giant ego to think all the way through his argument.