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Barcode30053003868844
StatusIn Process - Materials
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No304.2 WEBB
Title The arrogant ape : the myth of human exceptionalism and why it matters / Christine Webb.
Author Webb, Christine E., author.
CollectionOn Order Materials
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In Process - MaterialsParis-Bourbon30053003868844304.2 WEBB8/29/2025 In Process - Materials

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Personal Name Webb, Christine E., author.
Title Statement The arrogant ape : the myth of human exceptionalism and why it matters / Christine Webb.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2025]
Physical Description 326 pages ; 24 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-316) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Human superiority complex -- The unlearning curve -- A compulsion to contrast -- Pride that blinds -- The mismeasure of all things -- Thinking otherwise -- Relationship matters -- The entangled bank -- Our indigenous inheritance -- Coming down to earth.
Summary, Etc. "Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking enables us to exploit the earth towards our own exclusive ends, throwing us into a perilous planetary imbalance. But is this view and way of life inevitable? The Arrogant Ape shows that human exceptionalism is an ideology that relies more on human culture than our biology, more on delusion and faith than on evidence. Harvard primatologist Christine Webb has spent years researching the rich social, emotional, and cognitive lives of our closest living relatives. She exposes the ways that many scientific studies are biased against other species and reveals underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life-from the language of songbirds and prairie dogs, to the cultures of chimpanzees and reef fishes, to the acumen of plants and fungi. With compelling stories and fresh research she gives us a paradigm-shifting way of looking at other organisms on their own terms, one that is revolutionizing our perception both of them and of ourselves. Critiques of human exceptionalism tend to focus on our moral obligation towards other species. They overlook what humanity also stands to gain by dismantling its illusions of uniqueness and superiority. This shift in perspective fills us with a sense of awe and satisfies one of our oldest and deepest desires to belong to the larger whole we inhabit. What's at stake is a better, sustainable way of life with the potential to heal and rejuvenate our shared planet"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Human evolution.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Exceptionalism Social aspects.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Speciesism.

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