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I am. I am looking forward to it as well. I am about half way through the book already, but we may want to wait a little since some people haven't received their books yet.
Also Robert Tulip posted a link to De Waal's Tanner Lecture, which is a version of the first chapter of the text. That should help as well.
BTW I've posted some supplementary readings (and videos) should anyone want to check some of the stuff De Waal says.
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Mary: I'm not sure if you have the time or inclination, but I think you'd be a marvelous discussion leader for the de Waal book. Any chance you'd volunteer?
Saffron
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Actually that might be fun but I would depend upon you to tell me what it means to moderate at booktalk. In my experience the word appears to mean vastly different things depending upon which site you are attending.
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Actually that might be fun but I would depend upon you to tell me what it means to moderate at booktalk. In my experience the word appears to mean vastly different things depending upon which site you are attending.
If you are interested, drop Chris a private message that you want to be the discussion leader for this book. He has a post with tips for being a discussion leader. I looked for it, but alas, I couldn't find it. Basically, leading means guiding the discussion, especially when it gets too far off topic, adding asides that enrich the discussion and getting the discussion jump started if it begins to flag.
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“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hahn
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Mary, I've added you as the Book Discussion Leader for this book. Thanks to Saffron for nominating you and thank you for accepting. I think you'll do a fine job.
I've recently created a page explaining the role of a Book Discussion Leader on BookTalk.org. The page is a rough draft so expect changes, but being a Book Discussion Leader is common sense. http://www.booktalk.org/book-discussion-leader.php
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I went to Border's Books and Barnes & Nobles and neither had this book in stock. So I've ordered it through Amazon.com and it should arrive within a few days. I'm looking forward to reading it too.
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I've received my copy of Primates and Philosophers and have read the Introduction and a few pages of Chapter 1. I'm liking the format of the book - how several different people present their concepts on the origins and evolutionary development of morality in our species.
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Now that I have the book I'm realizing the current format for this forum isn't going to work. I originally created the threads based on an index for the book found on Amazon.com, but the index was misleading. For instance, the Appendices are actually quite brief and shouldn't necessarily be their own threads, and they certainly shouldn't be the first threads. I'll look over the book and rethink the format for this forum.
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