Welcome to my public page on which I'll post updates on books (such as "The Age of Empathy," 2009), interviews, and blogs (RSS/Blog), offer an opportunity for comments (Discussion), and so on.
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Frans de Waal - Public Page Very nice book review on Amazon by the economist and social scientist Herb Gintis, all the more remarkable since not all economists necessarily like comparisons with primates ...
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In this highly entertaining, lovingly written, and amply documented book, de Waal reverses his usual direction of argumentation, using the fact that primates exhibit rudimentary forms of human prosociality to assert that human sociality is fundamentally empathetic and altruistic. ...
Frans de Waal - Public Page My lecture schedule is posted at the below link. During my visit to Holland I give only one lecture, in Groningen, but Dutch TV will broadcast a "Profiel" Sunday 22 november 2009, 23.15 uur Nederland 2 (also Saturday 29 november, 14.30 uur). I will also appear on Pauw & Witteman (probably on Tuesday evening).
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Frans de Waal - Public Page The bloodsuckers at Wall Street are being compared with monkeys in the pages of New Scientist, and discussion follows, including that I must be a Marxist!
www.newscientist.com
Our instinctive reaction to displays of greed and conspicuous consumption has its origins in the primate world, says Frans de Waal
A photograph recently published by National Geographic and making the rounds online is renewing discussion about whether other animals experience the very human emotions of loss or mourning...
The discovery of fellatio in the shortnosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx) by Chinese investigators has become a bit of a web sensation, because who would have thought that animals actually enjoy sex and do their darnedest to stretch out the pleasure...
Frans de Waal - Public Page The Science Friday "interview" was mostly call-ins, but fun nonetheless and no creationists this time.
www.sciencefriday.com
Is it human nature to be greedy and selfish? Primatologist Frans de Waal doesn't think so. In his new book "The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons For a Kinder Society" de Waal says empathy and solidarity are our primate heritage. ...
Frans de Waal - Public Page Friday I will do "Science Friday," and today this youtube video.
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Biologist Frans de Waal presents an argument for empathy in a world focused on competition in The Age of Empathy. http://www.booklounge.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771027376&ref=video_yt_dewaal
Frans de Waal - Public Page Book display at SDSU in San Diego, where over three thousand students have read "The Ape and the Sushi Master" for their classes.
Neocons favor the chimpanzee -- macho and violent -- as model of our ape ancestor. But "Ardi" seems to have had more in common with the hippie-like bonobo...
Frans de Waal - Public Page Today also the MNSBC interview.
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
Frans de Waal Click for video: A female chimp shares a watermelon with two juveniles, one of which is her offspring. Click on the image to watch a video from Emory University. Is empathy a uniquely human trait? Research released just
Frans de Waal - Public Page I am hesitating if I want to engage myself in the debate now raging at Huffpost, because many comments are not really on target (they imply that in my blog I am advocating atheism, which is really not what this is about). I guess I'll just lean back and let it run.
www.huffingtonpost.com
After listening to the debate between Bill O'Reilly and Richard Dawkins, it struck me again that the resistance to evolutionary theory largely stems from the illusion that without God there can be no morality.
Without God, we will live like animals! After listening to the debate between Bill O'Reilly and Richard Dawkins, it struck me again that the resistance to evolutionary theory largely stems from the illusion that without God there can be no morality...
Frans de Waal - Public Page Latest interview at New Scientist.
www.americanscientist.org
Are humans inherently selfish? Modern societies would seem to suggest so. The structure of our financial, legal and political lives pits us against one another, and a host of recent issues—the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the "gospel of greed" on Wall Street, our struggles to reform the U.S. ...
Frans de Waal - Public Page Some of the discussions at the Wall Street Journal disturbed me. Not so much the creationists, as they are to be expected (I in fact admire WSJ, given their readership, to push the evoltution agenda), but some racist comments since removed.
Frans de Waal - Public Page A long, detailed review in *Slate* by Christine Kenneally, a website I often look at myself, so I hope others do as well.
www.slate.com
Frans de Waal, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, believes that it's just as natural to be nice as it is be mean. Man may be wolf to man, as the old saying has it, but de Waal points out with casu
