Ebook: Not so different: finding human nature in animals

1. Why Do We Play? -- 2. Animal Systems of Justice -- 3. Moral Animals -- 4. Sexual Politics -- 5. Do Animals Fall in Love? -- 6. The Agony of Grief -- 7. Jealous Beasts, The Dark Side of Love -- 8. Darker Still, Envy, Greed, and Power -- 9. Afraid of the Dark -- 10. The Richness of Animal Communication.;Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves miss each other, elephants grieve for their dead, and prairie dogs name the humans they encounter. Human and animal behavior is not as different as once believed. In Not So Different, the biologist Nathan H. Lents argues that the same evolutionary forces of cooperation and competition have shaped both humans and animals. He marshals evidence from psychology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology, and ethology to further advance this work and to drive home the truth that we are distinguished from animals only in degree, not in kind.