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dc.contributor.authorVeracini, Cecilia
dc.contributor.authorAGNELLI, PAOLO
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-31T10:14:30Z
dc.date.available2022-05-31T10:14:30Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifierONIX_20220531_9788884538871_116
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54832
dc.languageItalian
dc.subject.otherAntropologia
dc.subject.otherZoologia
dc.subject.otherScienze naturali
dc.subject.otherMuseo di storia naturale
dc.subject.otherFirenze
dc.subject.otherSpecola
dc.titlePrimati
dc.typebook
oapen.abstract.otherlanguageThe first descriptions of the anthropomorphic monkeys reached Europe channelled through a combination of legend, anecdote and travel journal. The first actual chimpanzee in flesh and blood only arrived around the seventeenth century, and the similarity between these great apes and human beings immediately unleashed conflicting reactions of attraction and awe, fascination and anxiety. Other primates had already been known in the Western world since antiquity, but creatures so similar to ourselves inevitably set human beings in relation to the rest of the natural world, or rather placed them within the same ongoing process, undermining the attempt at distinction from other animals and the claim to a sovereignty over the planet. We now know that we are not so unique and that we share numerous aspects with our primate cousins. Observing them, respecting them and attempting to understand them is the best way of entering into profound contact with our own nature.
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-8453-887-1
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870
oapen.relation.isbn9788884538871
oapen.relation.isbn9788892737778
oapen.pages80
oapen.place.publicationFirenze


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