I thank my agent Michelle Tessler for her continued support, and my editor at Norton, John Glusman, for critical reading of the manuscript. As always, my wife and number-one fan, Catherine, has read my daily production with enthusiasm and helped me stylistically. I thank her for the love in my life.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Frans de Waal is a Dutch-American ethologist and primatologist. Having earned a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Utrecht, in 1977, he completed a six-year study of the chimpanzee colony at Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem, before moving to the United States. His first popular book, Chimpanzee Politics, 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. Translated into over twenty languages, his books have made him one of the world’s most visible biologists.
With his discovery of reconciliation in primates, de Waal pioneered research on animal conflict resolution. He received the 1989 Los Angeles Times Book Award for Peacemaking Among Primates. His scientific articles have been published in journals from Science, Nature, and Scientific American to those specialized in animal behavior and cognition. His latest interests are animal cooperation, emotion, and empathy, and the evolution of human morality.
De Waal is C. H. Candler Professor in the Psychology Department of Emory University; Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, in Atlanta; and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utrecht. He is a longtime member of the board of directors of Chimp Haven, the National Chimpanzee Sanctuary, which releases ex-laboratory chimpanzees on large forested islands in Louisiana. He has been elected to both the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007 he was selected by Time as one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People Today and in 2011 by Discover as among forty-seven (all-time) Great Minds of Science.
With his wife, Catherine, de Waal lives in Smoke Rise, Georgia.
Also by Frans de Waal
The Bonobo and the Atheist (2013)
The Age of Empathy (2009)
Primates and Philosophers (2006)
Our Inner Ape (2005)
My Family Album (2003)
The Ape and the Sushi Master (2001)
Bonobo (1997)
Good Natured (1996)
Peacemaking Among Primates (1989)
Chimpanzee Politics (1982)
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