Andrew Y. Grant’s Nearly Human is an entertaining exploration of the many similarities between people and gorillas. It’s a quick read—I finished it in a week or so at an hour a day (and I am not the only non-skimmer in the immediate family). The text is liberally illustrated with black-and-white drawings, many of gorillas in very “human” poses captioned with text of one might be saying to the other….

Full review: LibraryThing and my blog