Primati

The first descriptions of the anthropomorphic monkeys reached Europe channelled through a combination of legend, anecdote and travel journal. The first actual chimpanzee in flesh and blood only arrived around the seventeenth century, and the similarity between these great apes and human beings immed...

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Main Authors: Veracini, Cecilia, AGNELLI, PAOLO
Format: Online
Language:Italian
Published: Firenze University Press 2022
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description The first descriptions of the anthropomorphic monkeys reached Europe channelled through a combination of legend, anecdote and travel journal. The first actual chimpanzee in flesh and blood only arrived around the seventeenth century, and the similarity between these great apes and human beings immediately unleashed conflicting reactions of attraction and awe, fascination and anxiety. Other primates had already been known in the Western world since antiquity, but creatures so similar to ourselves inevitably set human beings in relation to the rest of the natural world, or rather placed them within the same ongoing process, undermining the attempt at distinction from other animals and the claim to a sovereignty over the planet. We now know that we are not so unique and that we share numerous aspects with our primate cousins. Observing them, respecting them and attempting to understand them is the best way of entering into profound contact with our own nature.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-820382025-03-15T06:12:09Z Primati Veracini, Cecilia AGNELLI, PAOLO Antropologia Zoologia Scienze naturali Museo di storia naturale Firenze Specola The first descriptions of the anthropomorphic monkeys reached Europe channelled through a combination of legend, anecdote and travel journal. The first actual chimpanzee in flesh and blood only arrived around the seventeenth century, and the similarity between these great apes and human beings immediately unleashed conflicting reactions of attraction and awe, fascination and anxiety. Other primates had already been known in the Western world since antiquity, but creatures so similar to ourselves inevitably set human beings in relation to the rest of the natural world, or rather placed them within the same ongoing process, undermining the attempt at distinction from other animals and the claim to a sovereignty over the planet. We now know that we are not so unique and that we share numerous aspects with our primate cousins. Observing them, respecting them and attempting to understand them is the best way of entering into profound contact with our own nature. 2022-06-02T04:02:45Z 2022-06-02T04:02:45Z 2022-05-31T10:14:30Z 2008 book ONIX_20220531_9788884538871_116 OCN: 1228565218 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54832 9788884538871 9788892737778 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82038 ita open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54832/1/9788884538871.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54832/1/9788884538871.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54832/1/9788884538871.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-8453-887-1 10.36253/978-88-8453-887-1 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788884538871 9788892737778 80 Firenze open access
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Scienze naturali
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Specola
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