The beautiful woman on the book jacket cavorting with a baby bonobo might make Bonobo Handshake look like family-friendly fare. But primatologist Vanessa Woods' powerful new memoir is no Curious ...

This is a guest post from Vanessa Woods, author of the new book, Bonobo Handshake. Vanessa is a Research Scientist in Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University and studies the cognition of ...

This is a guest post from Vanessa Woods, author of the new book, Bonobo Handshake. Vanessa is a Research Scientist in Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University and studies the cognition of ...

Vanessa Woods is the author of Bonobo Handshake (Gotham 2010), a memoir of her research with bonobos in Congo. Vanessa has won the Acclaimed Book award from the Royal Society, UK, and the Australasian ...

Vanessa Woods, read by Justine Eyre, Tantor Media, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1745-1 Woods recounts her otherworldly experience of visiting a bonobo sanctuary in civil war ...

Devoted to learning more about bonobos, a smaller, more peaceable species of primate than chimpanzees, and lesser known, Australian journalist Woods and her fiancé, scientist Brian Hare, conducted ...

That would be novels that involve bonobos, not novels written by bonobos. That day is yet to come. Bonobos share more than 98 percent of our DNA, and might be best known for their pansexuality and ...

Dominique Morel believes that understanding what is unique about bonobos can help us better understand ourselves (Photos courtesy of Friends of Bonobos) Morel volunteered weekends as a surrogate ...