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Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
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bookshelves: animal-stuff, bio-anthro, books-that-messed-me-up, changed-everything-forever, cure-to-ignorance, favorites, geek-pleasure, groundbreaker, makes-me-cry, science-must, systems-thinking, the-evil-of-prejudice, humans-can-be-a-holes, holocaust, sentience
Dec 13, 2012
bookshelves: animal-stuff, bio-anthro, books-that-messed-me-up, changed-everything-forever, cure-to-ignorance, favorites, geek-pleasure, groundbreaker, makes-me-cry, science-must, systems-thinking, the-evil-of-prejudice, humans-can-be-a-holes, holocaust, sentience
Hmmmm.....just some of the good things I can think of about this book:
1. I learned how close we are psychologically, emotionally, verbally, and mentally to chimps
2. I learned to view animals in a much more connected way. I mean that I feel closer to all animals.
3. I saw again how susceptible humans are to holocaust/slavery type thinking.
4. This booked messed with my head. I will never be the same. I will forever after think of chimps as thinking/feeling/talking hominids. And I will be more sensitive to the feelings and well-being of all other animals.
5. I learned how speaking with the mouth/tongue evolved.
6. I learned how linked movement is with the ability to speak.
7. I learned about my own speech impediments.
I am really glad for Goodreads. Goodreads suggested this book and I had never noticed it before. And I really missed out up till now.
1. I learned how close we are psychologically, emotionally, verbally, and mentally to chimps
2. I learned to view animals in a much more connected way. I mean that I feel closer to all animals.
3. I saw again how susceptible humans are to holocaust/slavery type thinking.
4. This booked messed with my head. I will never be the same. I will forever after think of chimps as thinking/feeling/talking hominids. And I will be more sensitive to the feelings and well-being of all other animals.
5. I learned how speaking with the mouth/tongue evolved.
6. I learned how linked movement is with the ability to speak.
7. I learned about my own speech impediments.
I am really glad for Goodreads. Goodreads suggested this book and I had never noticed it before. And I really missed out up till now.
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Reading Progress
December 13, 2012
– Shelved
February 8, 2013
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Started Reading
March 29, 2013
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Finished Reading
