Frans de Waal (1948–2024)
Author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
About the Author
Frans De Waal has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The author of The Bonobo and the Atheist, 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 show more Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. show less
Works by Frans de Waal
Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution (2001) — Editor; Contributor — 83 copies
Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies (2003) — Editor — 12 copies
Emotions Inside Out: 130 Years After Darwin's the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Annals of the New York (2003) 8 copies
Simian Sympathy 1 copy
Journal: Bonobo Dialogues 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Waal, Frans de
- Legal name
- Waal, Fransiscus Bernardus Maria de
- Birthdate
- 1948-10-29
- Date of death
- 2024-03-14
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Netherlands
USA - Birthplace
- 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
- Place of death
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Cause of death
- stomach cancer
- Places of residence
- Utrecht, Netherlands
Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Education
- Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Utrecht University, The Netherlands - Occupations
- zoologist
ethologist - Organizations
- National Academy of Sciences
Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Nederland)
Emory University - Agent
- Michelle Tessler
- Short biography
- Dr. Frans B. M. de Waal is a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. His first book, Chimpanzee Politics (1982) compared the schmoozing and scheming of chimpanzees involved in power struggles with that of human politicians. Ever since, de Waal has drawn parallels between primate and human behavior, from peacemaking and morality to culture. His scientific work has been published in hundreds of technical articles in journals such as Science, Nature, Scientific American, and outlets specialized in animal behavior. His popular books — translated into twenty languages — have made him one of the world's most visible primatologists.
De Waal is C. H. Candler Professor in the Psychology Department of Emory University and Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2013, he is a Distinguished Professor (Universiteitshoogleraar) at Utrecht University. He has been elected to the (US) National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. In 2007, he was selected by Time as one of The Worlds' 100 Most Influential People Today, and in 2011 by Discover as among 47 (all time) Great Minds of Science. Being editor-in-chief of the journal Behaviour, de Waal has stepped in the footsteps of Niko Tinbergen, one of the founders of ethology.
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