194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates

<p>Humans are related to all other species here on Earth, but some are closer relatives than others. Primates, a group that includes apes, monkeys, lemurs, and others besides ourselves, are our closest relatives, and they exhibit a wide variety of behaviors that we can easily recognize. Frans de Waal is a leading primatologist and ethologist who has long studied cognition and collective behaviors in chimps, bonobos, and other species. His work has established the presence of politics, morality, and empathy in primates. His new book is <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/different-gender-through-the-eyes-of-a-primatologist/9781324007104" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.</em></a></p> <p><br /></p> <p><em>Support Mindscape on </em><a href="https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Patreon</em></a><em>.</em></p> <p>Frans de Waal received his Ph.D. in biology from Utrecht University. He is currently Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Among his awards are the Knight of the order of the Netherlands Lion, the Galileo Prize, ASP Distinguished Primatologist, and the PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, not to mention an <a href="https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2012" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ig Nobel Prize</a>.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/people/dewaal.shtml" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Web page</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/index.shtml" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/franspublic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook public page</a></li> <li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_fWxPwsAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar publications</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Frans-De-Waal/e/B000APOHE0%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon author page</a></li> </ul> <p><br /></p>