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Animal Societies
- How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World
- Narrated by: Ashley Ward
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Anthropology
Publisher's Summary
In our modern world of social media and relentless technological advancement, we are more connected than ever before. Though the scale of this connectivity is new, the instinctive desire to gather with our own kind has ancient roots. We can see the origins of our own societies in the social behaviour of the animals that share the planet with us. What’s more, human characteristics such as altruism, empathy, leadership and language can also be witnessed among animal groups.
Join Biologist Ashley Ward as he takes listeners into the intimate worlds of social animals. Journeying from Aysgarth Falls to the Great Barrier Reef, it becomes clear that animals are not so far removed from us as we might imagine. In a time where humans are struggling to navigate cityscapes, isolation and a loneliness epidemic, Ward shows us that studying the social behaviour of animals offers insights valuable in their own right as well as a window into the evolutionary basis of our own species.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-08-02
Great book
The book was really captivating, well researched, with a great performance. A lot interesting new information and well organized. Even though it did not have many reviews and the author is not a very well known scientist, this book is really great, so don’t let yourself influenced but that.