The articles had been edited by paola cavalieri and peter singer. Other subjects addressed within the book include the division placed between humans and great apes, great. The great ape project this book is a collection of articles by numerous authors discussing facets of the proposal to grant personhood rights to the great apes. The great ape project book the book of the same name, edited by philosophers paola cavalieri and peter singer, features contributions from thirtyfour authors, including jane goodall and richard dawkins, who have submitted articles voicing their support for the project. The great ape project, or gap, is an international movement created in 1994 whose main purpose is to fight for the basic rights to life, freedom and nontorture of the nonhuman great apes chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos, the closest relatives of man in the animal world. A compelling and revolutionary work that calls for the immediate extension of our human rights to the great apes. The great ape project by paola cavalieri goodreads. Remembering great apes will be the third book in the acclaimed wildlife series. Edited by one of the founding fathers of the modern animal ri. The great ape project, founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists. Proclaiming the extension of the community of equals of human beings to include chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, this book presents a.
Great apes in africa on lockdown amid coronavirus threat. World atlas of great apes and their conservation by julian. Will selfs book great apes is a funny idea that gets dragged out into a full length novel for no particular good reason. The authors write that human beings are intelligent animals with a varied social, emotional, and cognitive life. A man wakes up and finds all the world has transformed into chimpanzees. Saving endangered great apes scientists in the field by turner, pamela s. The gap was born from ideas developed in a book of the same name written by.
This book may prove to be one of the most subversive published in english this year. The book was accompanied by a document, a declaration on great apes, to which the contributors subscribed. The great ape project is an idea, a book, and an organization. All profits will go to great ape protection projects. New measures are needed to reduce the risk of wild. Questions raised over ban on research using great apes. In 1993, a number of scholars collaborated on a book of essays entitled the great ape project gap. The great apes have been put on lockdown as conservationists worldwide fear that humans closest living relatives might also be susceptible. Created in association with the great apes survival project grasp, this book gives a thorough background on ape behavior and ecology for each species. Remembering great apes by wildlife photographers united remembering great apes is the third book in the highly acclaimed remembering wildlife series of charity books and has been edited by ian redmond obe and features a foreword by dr jane goodall, phd, dbe. Remembering great apes by margot raggett kickstarter.
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