Happy Readers Book Club - The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans De Waal

If you would like to join the book club, please email George Glansdorop at this email address:

g.m.glansdorp@gmail.com

In May we will be discussing the 2013 book, "The Bonobo and the Atheist: The Search for Humanism among Primates" by the famed primologist Frans de Waal. 

Here is the publisher's description:

"In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution.

For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate societies that further cements the case for the biological origins of human fairness. Interweaving vivid tales from the animal kingdom with thoughtful philosophical analysis,…