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2015
Overview
Stories about apes and monkeys reveal our deepest hopes and fears, and for the last century and a half, the figure of Charles Darwin has brought these hopes and fears into focus. Both his theories and his numerous anecdotes about primates of all kinds illustrate the deep kinship between humans and our order mates. To understand why Darwin’s attention to primates has been a flash point and an inspiration, it is helpful to begin a little before his time, with a glance at one of the last philoso-phers of the Enlightenment period, Immanuel Kant. Kant was no animal lover, and
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN
027106630X, 9780271066301
