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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

Book by Frans de Waal · 3 quotes · Humans, Emotions, Evolution

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“The reality is that we are bodies born from other bodies, bodies feeding other bodies, bodies having sex with other bodies, bodies seeking a shoulder to lean or cry on, bodies traveling long distances to be close to other bodies, and so on. Would life be worth living without these connections and the emotions they arouse? How happy would we be, especially given that happiness, too, is an emotion?”