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Subtitled "An undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships". A leading primatologist uncovers the rules that govern the social life of the human animal. Most of us don't realise that when we exchange emails with someone - anyone - we are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy, as this idiosyncratic and witty approach to our deep and complex origins reveals.
Synopsis
An investigation of the evolution and economics of human relationships. It arms readers with knowledge of the scientific principles that ethologists, psychologists, economists, and other behavioural scientists have discovered in their quest to unravel the complexities of behaviour.