a book about the abuse of the human being before his closest evolutionary relative
“When in the early 1960s I shamelessly used terms like ‘childhood’, ‘adolescence’, ‘motivation’, ‘enthusiasm’ and ‘state of mind’ I was heavily criticized. Even worse was my crime when I suggested that chimps had personality. ‘I was attributing human characteristics to nonhuman animals and was therefore blamed for one of the worst ethological sins: anthropomorphism, “said Jane Goodall, an ethologist and pioneer in wild chimpanzee research.
