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Much Like Us
UK publication May 2022 US publication July 2022
200 pages 9781108838498 Hardback
£17.99 / $23.95 USD / $27.95 CAD
At a glance
• Based on Sachser’s bestselling
German-language book, Der
Mensch im Tier, making it available to an English audience for the first time • Illuminates what we now know about the thoughts, feelings and behaviour of animals, inviting the reader to challenge preconceptions about how different we really our from our fellow creatures, and what we can learn from them • Written specifically for the general reader, bringing the science of animal behaviour to life with examples and anecdotes drawn from the author’s own work
Much Like Us
Norbert Sachser, translated by Ruby Bilger
What really differentiates us from our relatives in the animal world? And what can they teach us about ourselves? Taking these questions as his starting point, Norbert Sachser presents fascinating insights into the inner lives of animals, revealing what we now know about their thoughts, feelings and behaviour. By turns surprising, humourous and thought-provoking, Much Like Us invites us on a journey around the animal kingdom, explaining along the way how dogs demonstrate empathy, why chimpanzees wage war and how crows and ravens craft tools to catch food. Sachser brings the science to life with examples and anecdotes drawn from his own research, illuminating the vast strides in understanding that have been made over the last 30 years. He ultimately invites us to challenge our own preconceptions – the closer we look, the more we see the humanity in our fellow creatures.
Norbert Sachser is Professor of Zoology and Head of the Department of Behavioural Biology at the University of Münster, Germany. Widely-considered to be one of Germany’s leading behavioural biologists, he is known particularly for his pioneering work on stress, social behaviour and welfare indicators in mammals.
Advance praise
‘A must-read for anyone interested in the behaviour, cognition, and emotions of animals and the evolutionary roots of human behaviour. Sachser offers an authoritative and accessible account of the behavioural and physiological mechanisms and processes that humans share with other mammals, which is interspersed with numerous insightful anecdotes. Definitely an informative and entertaining read for professional and lay readers alike.’ Peter Kappeler, University of Göttingen and The Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Germany
