神秘的动物
“科莫多龙、鲨鱼、水母、黄蜂、鬣狗、螳螂……所有这些动物都让我们感到恐惧，要么因为它们令人厌恶，要么因为它们被认为是危险的。然而，他们却隐藏着惊人的能力，d奇妙的力量，非凡的智慧，甚至对人类和地球都非常有用！
那么，您知道某些蜘蛛的毒液可用于治疗癫痫吗？狼在森林平衡中发挥着重要作用？
章鱼能够建造真正的水下城市吗？
黄蜂能够识别同类的面孔吗？水母掌握着永生的钥匙吗？
这本书强调了这些动物的强大力量，它们让我们如此恐惧，而且它们的危险性往往是一个神话。它为人们揭示了它们的传奇历史、生活方式、物理特性提供了新的线索，并回顾了它们在生态系统中的至关重要性。”
The beast within
« How different from animals are we really?
Are humans the only creatures who love, laugh, cry, possess morals, and wage war? In The Beast Within, scientific researcher and ethologist Jessica Serra upends the assumptions that underpin our very human hypothesis that we possess a superior place in the hierarchy of organisms on Earth. How did we come to think of our animality as standing in opposition to our humanity—and does this reasoning have a scientific basis?
Through the fascinating discoveries made by ethologists, anthropologists, and archeologists, Serra deciphers our behaviors in light of their animal roots and demystifies ideas about how different animals are from humans. She compares human behaviors with those exhibited by other species in chapters spanning topics as varied as sex, morality, emotions, intelligence, and family. Exploring the evolution of various animal species, as well as the evolution of historical ideas about humanity and animality, Serra theorizes that human behaviors and motivations may hold more in common with those of animals than we think. These explorations of scientific findings encourage us to reconsider how much we have truly removed ourselves from "the beast within."»
