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Frans B.M. de Waal, PhD (b. 1948, Utrecht, the Netherlands) is a psychologist, primatologist and ethologist. He is the C.H. Chandler professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory University psychology department in Atlanta, Georgia, and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and author of numerous books including "Chimpanzee Politics" and "Our Inner Ape." His research centers on primate social behavior, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion, and food-sharing. In 1993, he was elected to the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, and was elected as a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
Utrecht is a municipality and the capital city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. ...
A psychologist is a scientist who studies psychology, the systematic investigation of the human behaviour and mental processes. ...
Primatology is the study of primates. ...
Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour (particularly of social animals such as primates and canids), and is a branch of zoology. ...
Families 15, See classification A primate (L. prima, first) is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans. ...
Behavior (or behaviour in Commonwealth English) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ...
Emory University is a private university in Atlanta, Georgia. ...
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The Yerkes National Primate Research Center, located in Atlanta, Georgia at Emory University, is one of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health. ...
Conflict resolution or Conflictology is the process of resolving a dispute or a conflict, by providing each sides needs, and adequately addressing their interests so that they are satisfied with the outcome. ...
Co-operation refers to the practice of people or greater entities working in common with commonly agreed-upon goals and possibly methods, instead of working separately in competition. ...
Inequity aversion is the preference for fair rewards and fairplay in Anthropology (in the sub-disciplines sociology, economics, sociobiology, psychology, Evolutionary psychology, and primate behaviourology). ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
The Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. ...
President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Education
In 1977, de Waal received his doctorate in biology from Utrecht University after training as a zoologist and ethologist. His dissertation research concerned aggressive behavior and alliance formation in macaques. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. ...
Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands. ...
Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ...
An alliance can be: an agreement between two parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests. ...
Type species Simia inuus Linnaeus, 1758 = Simia sylvanus Linnaeus, 1758 Species see text Mother and child in the Ubud Monkey Forest Sanctuary (Bali, Indonesia) The macaques (genus Macaca) are Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. ...
Career In 1975, de Waal began a six-year project on the world's largest captive colony of chimpanzees at the Arnhem Zoo. The study resulted in many scientific papers, and resulted in publication of his first book, Chimpanzee Politics, in 1982. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
Type Species Simia troglodytes Blumenbach, 1775 Species Pan troglodytes Pan paniscus Chimpanzee, often abbreviated to chimp, is the common name for two species in the genus Pan. ...
1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In 1981, he moved to the United States for a position at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, and took his current position at Emory and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in 1991. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Yerkes National Primate Research Center, located in Atlanta, Georgia at Emory University, is one of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health. ...
1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
His research into the innate capacity for empathy among primates has led de Waal to the conclusion that non-human great apes and humans are simply different types of apes, and that there is little difference between these species, except that humans walk on two legs. Empathy is the recognition and understanding of the states of mind, beliefs, desires, and particularly, emotions of others. ...
Genera Subfamily Ponginae Pongo - Orangutans Gigantopithecus (extinct) Sivapithecus (extinct) Subfamily Homininae Gorilla - Gorillas Pan - Chimpanzees Homo - Humans Paranthropus (extinct) Australopithecus (extinct) Sahelanthropus (extinct) Ardipithecus (extinct) Kenyanthropus (extinct) Pierolapithecus (extinct) (tentative) The Hominids (Hominidae) are a biological family which includes humans, extinct species of humanlike creatures and the other great apes...
Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu†Homo sapiens sapiens Homo (genus). ...
His book, Our Inner Ape, examines human behavior through the eyes of a primatologist, using the behavior of Common Chimpanzees and Bonobos as metaphors for human psychology. Binomial name Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775) The Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is a great ape. ...
Binomial name Pan paniscus Schwarz, 1929 The Bonobo (Pan paniscus), until recently usually called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is one of the two species comprising the chimpanzee genus, Pan. ...
In language, a metaphor (from the Greek: metapherin) is a rhetorical trope defined as a direct comparison between two seemingly unrelated subjects. ...
De Waal's Law People, such as primatologists and zoo keepers who work on a daily basis with apes, always have a high opinion of apes' intelligence and abilities. Those who attempt to minimize apes' language abilities and cognitive skills are always people with little or no first-hand experience with apes. In the field of animal cognition, the premise of David Premacks and Ann James Premacks 1983 book, The Mind of an Ape ISBN 0-393-01581-5 is that It is possible to teach language to an ape. ...
Research into great ape language has shown that apes can communicate in a primitive way. ...
Look up Cognition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term cognition (Latin, cogito: to think) is used in several different loosely related ways. ...
Quote "The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures." Frans de Waal Comparative brain sizes In animals, the brain, or encephalon (Greek for in the head), is the control center of the central nervous system. ...
Species 50 species; see text<br> <nowiki>*</nowiki>Several subfamilies of Muroids<br>include animals called rats. ...
A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office. ...
An anecdote Professor de Waal once spoke to a group of Behaviorist psychologist about reconciliation among chimpanzees. They refused to accept this, insisting that reconciliation can only happen in Homo sapiens. De Waal invited them to witness the chimps reconciling. They declined, claiming that first-hand observation would destroy their "scientific objectivity." They were behaving just like the Aristotelian scholars who refused to look through the telescope of Galileo. Human beings are defined variously in biological, spiritual, and cultural terms, or in combinations thereof. ...
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Selected bibliography
Books - Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are. New York: Riverhead Books, 2005. ISBN 1573223123
- Chimpanzee Politics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Universitry Press, 2000. ISBN 0801863368.
- Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies (edited with Peter L. Tyack). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN 0674009290.
- The Ape and the Sushi Master. New York: Basic Books, 2001. ISBN 0465041752
- Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN 0520205359
- Good Natured. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. ISBN 0674356608
- Peacemaking Among Primates. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. ISBN 0674659201
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Popular science book The Ape and the Sushi Master, by Frans de Waal, is an overview of animal behavior and psychology, with emphasis on primates. ...
2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Articles - 2001, "Do Humans Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?" (Chronicle.com, October 26, 2001)
- 1999, "The End of Nature Versus Nurture", Scientific American, vol 281, no 6, p 94-99
2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Scientific American is a popular-science magazine, published monthly since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. ...
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