Reviews for Gorilla Society: Conflict, Compromise, and Cooperation Between the Sexes

The average rating for Gorilla Society: Conflict, Compromise, and Cooperation Between the Sexes based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-18 00:00:00 Sharon Pesonen This book is just beautiful, it contains everything you wanted to know about gorilla group behavior, social patterns, ecology, male and female reproductive strategies and survival strategies (nothing on anatomy or physiology). Not jargony. There's a section in the front to get one started on the basics of selection, ethology, sociobiology to pave for the application of the framework when it comes to the specific chunks of content on the gorillas. That really helped. After reading this I might look back and think, Wow, I now understand and predict the basics of gorilla behavior, to the extent of research at the time this book went to print! Not bad at all.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-20 00:00:00 Kumar Srinivas The back of my copy of Dylan Evans's book features snippets of glowing reviews from Malcolm Bowie, David Macey, and Slavoj Žižek, all leading figures in the field of Lacan studies. Looking through the book itself - I'm not going to read a damned dictionary from cover to cover - shows that Evans has done his homework. There are useful explanations of the various key Lacanian terms, with genealogies that show how they have changed over time. Nonetheless, I can't help but wonder what the point of a work like this might be. I suppose if I were really stuck on a technical point, I might look up this dictionary, but that would hardly be a common occurrence. I'd be better off consulting Lacan's work, or reading an explanation in one of the gazillion other "introduction to Lacan" books that already exists. On the whole, then, this is not a bad book, just one that seems rather unnecessary.