Forward-facing eyes are a defining feature of all primates, but the one thing
that strikes you as you begin to leaf through the 350 colour photographs in
Cousins is the diversity of our closest relatives’ faces—ranging from
the comic to the threatening to the almost human. The book, which complements
the BBC TV series of the same name, explores the history of primates and it
describes the latest theories on how much of human cognition is also shared by
the other apes. Written by primatologists Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett,
Cousins is accompanied by three separate books that are…
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