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Frans De Waal

Also known as: F. B. M. de Waal, Frans B. M. de Waal

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Frans de Waal has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. The author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory University’s Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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One can take the ape out of the jungle, but not the jungle out of the ape.

— from Our Inner Ape, 2005

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#1

The bonobo and the atheist

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A renowned primatologist argues that ethical behavior witnessed in animals is the evolutionary and biological origin of human fairness and explains that morality has more to do with natural instincts than with religion.

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Tree of origin

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How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and successful apes we are? Our closest relatives offer tantalizing clues. In this volume top primate experts read these clues and compose an extensive picture of what the behaviour of monkeys and apes can tellus about our own evolution as a species.

#3

Van nature goed

1996

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Waal shows how ethical behavior is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait.

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