Our Inner Monkey: The Dual Nature of Humanity

The book by one of the world's most renowned primatologists, Frans de Waal, is dedicated to the evolutionary origins of human nature, its duality, and biological roots.
De Waal examines four key aspects of our nature – the desire for power, the need for sex, the tendency towards acts of violence, and displays of kindness – and based on many years of observations of great apes, he proves that all of this is equally characteristic of them.
In his work, he presents arguments in favor of the notion of humans as social animals, a "bipolar ape," equally resembling aggressive, competitive chimpanzees and empathetic hedonistic bonobos. Not ignoring the base aspects of human nature, de Waal pays special attention to its positive, moral manifestations and how these two sides combine and complement each other, being equally important for the evolution of our species and for the survival of civilization as a whole.