The Well-Dressed ape : : a Natural History of Myself
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Quick as a cricket : physical description -- Crafty as a coyote : the brain -- Blind as a bat : perception -- Free as a bird : range -- A dog in the manger : territoriality -- Hungry as a wolf : diet -- Loose as a goose : reproduction -- Busy as a beaver : behavior -- Chatty as a magpie : communication -- Tough as a boiled owl : predators -- A bull in a china shop : ecosystem impacts.
Explores how the human animal--the eponymous well-dressed ape--fits into the natural world, even as we humans change that world in both constructive and destructive ways.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: xii, 351 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781400065417
1400065410
SUBJECTS
Human biology.
Physiology, Comparative.
Physical anthropology.