Chris Herzfeld

The Great Apes offers a unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives and the development of primatology as a discipline. This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind’s relationship with the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), spanning from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces...