Dr Frans de Waal at a primate research centre in Atlanta, Georgia, 2007 - JACK KEARSE Frans de Waal, who has died of cancer aged 75, was a distinguished Dutch-American primatologist whose research not ...

Internationally renowned primatologist Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D., has been named the 2016 winner of the Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Award. Dr. de Waal is the Charles Howard Candler ...

Primatologist Frans de Waal, whose study of chimpanzees and apes helped reveal the reconciliatory and empathic nature of primates—including humans—has died at age 75, said the university where he ...

It wasn’t that long ago that scientists didn’t think animals could rival humans in terms of intelligence, emotions, or empathy. But the groundbreaking work of Dr. Frans de Waal helped change all of ...

What can the behaviour of apes teach us about sex and gender? A great deal, according to a new book by primatologist Frans de Waal – and his findings are already stirring controversy Sex and gender ...

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In a book coming out next week called The Bonobo and the Atheist, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that morality is built into our species. Rather than coming to us top-down from God, or any other ...

Frans de Waal was just starting his career in primate research in the mid-1970s when he watched a male chimpanzee aggressively confront another at a zoo enclosure in the Netherlands. Awhile later, the ...

You’d have to be brave or clueless to enter the public debate on gender. Frans de Waal is not clueless. A renowned primatologist, he has spent thousands of hours observing apes and monkeys in the wild ...

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An unusually popular primatologist, he drew the attention of Newt Gingrich, Isabella Rossellini, the philosopher Peter Singer and the reading public. By Alex Traub Frans de Waal’s “Different” is a ...