Chip Walter
The New Yorker Magazine Calls Last Ape Standing “Engaging and Fascinating”

The New Yorker Magazine Calls Last Ape Standing Engaging and Fascinating

It's never a bad thing to get a great review, especially when it comes from a legendary publication like The New Yorker Magazine, bless their hearts!

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Ray Kurzweil’s Praise for Last Ape Standing

Ray Kurzweil's Praise for Last Ape Standing

“Nearly every page offers something that will surprise or intrigue you. Read it! You’ll never see yourself or anyone else the same way again.” — Ray Kurzweil, Author of How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought ...

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Donald Johanson Calls Last Ape Standing – “thoroughly enjoyable.”

Donald Johanson Calls Last Ape Standing – thoroughly enjoyable.

“The saga of human evolution is far from a straight line from ape to angel, with all but one of many species going extinct. Chip Walter's thoroughly enjoyable new book considers the evolutionary and social forces that crafted us, modern ...

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A Few Words About Last Ape Standing from NPR’s Robert Krulwich

A Few Words About Last Ape Standing from NPR's Robert Krulwich

On his blog recently NPR's Robert Krulwich had a few kind words for Last Ape Standing, and expanded on a passage in the book imagining what it must have been like when our direct Homo sapiens ancestors first encountered Neanderthals ...

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Actor Michael Keaton Ruminates on Last Ape Standing

Actor Michael Keaton Ruminates on Last Ape Standing

"This book has a way of making you feel magnificently insignificant and at the same time an essential, vital part of the chain of human evolution. Just when you thought you were fully evolved as a human...think again. Mind blowing ...

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Booklist on Last Ape Standing – “Captivating”

Booklist on Last Ape Standing - Captivating

In its advanced review, Booklist called Last Ape Standing, "captivating, informative, exceptionally well-written and accessible." Read the full review...

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Who is That Voice in Your Head? The Origin of Consciousness

Who is That Voice in Your Head? The Origin of Consciousness

When you talk to yourself, who exactly is doing the talking? Who is doing the listening? Because there is only ONE "you," right?

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Did Childhood Make Us Invincible?

Did Childhood Make Us Invincible?

How the evolution of childhood lead to modern humans conquering the planet. In this Slate piece, Chip explains why our long childhood changed everything.

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Neanderthals: Why Did We Make It, When They Didn’t?

Neanderthals: Why Did We Make It, When They Didn't?

Amid speculation over a 'Jurassic Park'-like return, the question remains: Why did they vanish in the first place?

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Cape Town from Table Mountain. Up to 5 million people now live here.

Dispatch No. 3 From a Last Ape Standing - Departing Cape Town

Chip Walter -- the Last Ape Standing -- departs Cape Town for National Geographic magazine headed for the next location on his assignment, an outpost called Potberg. Read all dispatches at www.chipwalter.com/blog.

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Welcome!

At last you have made your way to the website of Chip Walter. (Try to control your excitement.) If you’re a curious person – and your discovery of this site attests that you are – then you’ve arrived at the right place. Go ahead, browse…

Chip is a journalist, author, filmmaker and former CNN Bureau Chief. He has written four books, all of them, one way or another, explorations of human creativity, human nature and human curiosity.

Last Ape Standing 3D coverAs it happens, his latest book, Last Ape Standing, just arrived in bookstores January 29, 2013. If you order now, you will receive a 34% discount. Who doesn’t like that?

Maybe you’ll agree with writer and thinker Ray Kurzweil that, “Nearly every page offers something that will surprise or intrigue you. Read it. You’ll never see yourself or anyone else the same way again.”

William Shatner put it this way, “I read Last Ape Standing while sitting down. Then I jumped up and cheered. It’s that good!”

The New Yorker wrote of Last Ape, An “engaging [book that] … sheds a fascinating light on our evolutionary success.” The great paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson calls Last Ape Standing, “thoroughly enjoyable…an intriguing scenario of why Homo sapiens is the Last Ape Standing.” Actor Michael Keaton called it “mind blowing stuff!” And Kirkus Review describes it as an “engrossing account of human evolution,” while Booklist calls it “captivating.”

See for yourself…