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The Well-dressed Ape: A Natural History Of Myself

by HOLMES HANNAH

Random House Of Canada | July 21, 2011 | Hardcover

Stiff meets Your Inner Fish in this surprising, humourous, and edifying look at our species as, essentially, animals.

Combining personal stories, cutting-edge science, and a buoyant sense of humour, Hannah Holmes offers an intriguing and fresh way to understand our place in the world.

Science journalist Hannah Holmes wryly examines the human animal, beginning with the animal she knows best: herself. What she finds is that, of course, we are indisputably animals - in some ways (smell and vision, for instance) rather inferior ones.

Yet Holmes also discovers that Homo sapiens exhibit some traits and behaviours found in no other animal on earth. Our species is among the most generous, and the most thoughtful. Not so admirably, we kill ourselves any number of ways, including by eating ourselves to death. All this in addition to a patently bizarre physical appearance, and shocking lack of defences.

Confronting the creature in the mirror, Holmes wrestles with the big questions: Are humans special at all? How different are men and women? (Very.) What is our place in the kingdom of animals - and on the planet Earth?
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    Rating: 2/5

    Just Okay

    Gemma_B

    4 weeks ago

    I'm one of those people who can't really get into the writing style of this book that other reviewers are raving about. It was too much of a story and a little tedious to follow (not to mention a bit wordy). Quite a few of her facts are already commonly known, and sometimes reading a paragraph would just lead to a 'who knows' type of answer. Still, there were some interesting facts spread throughout. If you want to avoid storytelling but still want people-facts, try Peoplewatching by Desmond Morris.

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    Rating: 5/5

    LOVE IT

    Dandoon

    2 years ago

    LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.

    I have not read a non fiction kinda scientific book (biology) in a while that was sooooo much fun, the author, Hannah Holmes, is hilariuos. At one point in the book she stood in the front of the mirror naked and used herself as a study specimen and OMG I couldn't stop laughing.

    She manages to use self deprecating humor in such a great balance that I giggled throughout the whole book but still got SO much information out of it.

    The book is VERY informative but NEVER boring. It's like the books : A short history of nearly everything and a short history of progress.

    Well as the title suggest the book talks about humans and studies them as if they were animals, talks about the food they eat, their habitat , mating rituals, their brains , even why do they have hair and many many things.

    I urge you to read it, not a lot of times do you find books that educate you AND entertain you at the same time.

    I am going to bookmark all her books.

    3 thumbs up! Maybe in 10000 years after humans evolve another thumb.

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