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Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behavior is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and survival of the fittest, but, in fact, humans are equally hard-wired for empathy. Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behavior, and neuroscience, Frans de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals--highly cooperative, sensitive to injustice, and mostly peace-loving--just like other primates, elephants, and dolphins. This revelation has profound implications for everything from politics to office culture.

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Alan Sklar delivers an in-depth narration of fascinating stories about the ability of mammals to show sincere empathy.-- AudioFile A psychology professor with proof positive that, like other creatures who hang out in herds, we've evolved to be empathetic...The Age of Empathy offers advice to cutthroat so-called realists: Listen to your inner ape. -- O, The Oprah Magazine De Waal is an excellent tour guide, refreshingly literate outside his field, deft at stitching bits of philosophy and anthropology into the narrative. -- Globe and Mail (Toronto) Dr. de Waal has gathered ample evidence that our ability to identify with another's distress--a catalyst for compassion and charity--has deep roots in the origin of our species. It is a view independently reinforced by recent biomedical studies showing that our brains are built to feel another's pain. -- Wall Street Journal Freshly topical....a corrective to the idea that all animals--human and otherwise--are selfish and unfeeling to the core. -- Economist Given the nature of business survival in a competitive world, de Waal's clarion call that greed is out and empathy is in may be a call we should all hear. -- Psychology Today

"Alan Sklar delivers an in-depth narration of fascinating stories about the ability of mammals to show sincere empathy.-- ""AudioFile"" ""A psychology professor with proof positive that, like other creatures who hang out in herds, we've evolved to be empathetic...The Age of Empathy offers advice to cutthroat so-called realists: Listen to your inner ape."" -- ""O, The Oprah Magazine"" ""De Waal is an excellent tour guide, refreshingly literate outside his field, deft at stitching bits of philosophy and anthropology into the narrative."" -- ""Globe and Mail (Toronto)"" ""Dr. de Waal has gathered ample evidence that our ability to identify with another's distress--a catalyst for compassion and charity--has deep roots in the origin of our species. It is a view independently reinforced by recent biomedical studies showing that our brains are built to feel another's pain."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""Freshly topical....a corrective to the idea that all animals--human and otherwise--are selfish and unfeeling to the core."" -- ""Economist"" ""Given the nature of business survival in a competitive world, de Waal's clarion call that greed is out and empathy is in may be a call we should all hear."" -- ""Psychology Today"""

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Frans de Waal, Ph.D., is a biologist and ethologist, world-renowned for his work on the social intelligence of primates such as chimpanzees, bonobos, capuchins, and macaques. He is credited with the discovery of reconciliation in chimpanzees, and he is the founder of the field of conflict resolution research in animals. He was the first scientist to show that apes resolve conflicts, cooperate, and console one another. He is the author of eight books, including The Ape and the Sushi Master, a New York Times Notable Book, and Peacemaking Among Primates, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award. De Waal is currently the C. H. Candler Professor in the psychology department of Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Alan Sklar's theatre credits include Hamlet, King John, The Taming of the Shrew, The Seagull, and many other roles. He is an accomplished voice artist and narrator. He has narrated over 100 audiobooks and earned two AudioFile Earphones Awards. He was also named the Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture in both 2008 and 2009 by AudioFile Magazine. Sklar's audiobook credits include Newt Gingrich's Winning the Future, Thomas Harris's Red Dragon, Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action, and eight murder mystery novels by Lawrence Block.

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