Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Evidence as to man's place in nature	Thomas Henry Huxley	Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature is an 1863 book by Thomas Henry Huxley, in which he gives evidence for the evolution of man and apes from a common ancestor. It was the first book devoted to the …	OL1102961W
Monkeys & apes	Camilla De la Bédoyère	48 pages : 31 cm	OL15079892W
Apes	Helen Kay	Discusses the physical and behavioral similarities of man and the gibbon, orangoutan, chimpanzee, and gorilla.	OL15870497W
Great apes	Will Self	Painter Simon Dykes awakens after a night of drinking to find the world is populated by monkeys. He is taken to a psychiatric hospital where monkey doctors try to cure him of his delusion that he is …	OL15927216W
Apes	Annemarie Schmidt	Examines the characteristics and natural environment of various members of the ape family, including gibbons, gorillas, and chimpanzees.	OL1632702W
Apes	Henry Pluckrose,Richard Orr	Briefly introduces gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, and gibbons.	OL17016427W
Ding dong ding dong	Margie Palatini	Despite repeated difficulties, a large ape tries various approaches to selling Ape-On Cosmetics and his persistence pays off in an unexpected way.	OL176093W
Out, out	Kim MacQueen	Deb Solomon is a new mom suffering a spate of postpartum depression, a listless marriage and a career in free-fall. So she jumps at the chance to go to work in another world: a university laboratory …	OL17859649W
There's an Ape Behind the Drape	Bernard Most	When Anthony, a boy who likes to find words hidden in bigger words, finds an "ape" behind the drape, he chases it into his sister's diaper, a skyscraper, a landscape, and other surprising locations.	OL1802425W
Going ape!	Eduardo Bustos	Presents an introduction to some of the world's primate species, with informative facts about such animals as chimpanzees, macaques, gibbons, baboons, orangutans, and gorillas.	OL18161912W
Monkey or ape?	Susan Holt Kralovansky	Some types of animals look alike but they are not the same! Monkey or Ape? explores the stealthy differences between the two animals. Kids will learn to look at their size, their tails, how they walk…	OL18173425W
Monkeys and apes	James Prunier	An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of apes and monkeys.	OL18278608W
A first look at monkeys and apes	Millicent E. Selsam	Introduces the characteristics of apes and New World and Old World monkeys.	OL1876400W
The orangutan	Carl R. Green	Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the orangutan.	OL19042483W
Monkeys and apes of the world	Rita Golden Gelman	Discusses the characteristics, habitats, and behavior of different kinds of monkeys and apes around the world.	OL1915877W
Simios y monos	Barbara Taylor	Through an examination of both the ape and the monkey, the difference between these two creatures, the manner in which they live in their own part of the world, and their connection to the human race…	OL19294343W
Demonic males	Dale Peterson,Richard Wrangham	Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closes…	OL19664414W
The ape man's brother	Joe R. Lansdale	"Orphaned by a plane crash, raised in the wilds of a lost world hidden somewhere beneath a constant mist, The Big Guy and his ape-man brother from another mother are living a life of danger amongst r…	OL19974930W
The real planet of the apes	David R. Begun	Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our …	OL20012940W
How Monkey says my name is!	Abigail Samoun	e m appelle, meenya zavoot, me llamo, MY NAME IS MONKEY! Monkey s taking a trip around the world, and everywhere she goes she introduces herself in the native language of the country she s visiting. …	OL20022793W