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Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University's Yerkes Primate Center who was not involved in the study, called the finding striking. "It is one of the very few successful controlled experiments in the wild," de Waal said, adding that "it hints at a ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51663935/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/everybody...
Primate researchers in Georgia have laid out what they say ... The debate focuses on a key question about human evolution: How long ago did our ancestors acquire what Abraham Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature"? These angelic traits ...http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/14/16508452-do-chimps-have-a-sense-of...
Maybe it prods parents to be restless, "to help find new worlds for the next generation to breed," he said. Frans de Waal, an authority in primate behavior at Emory University, cautioned that when people judge the happiness of apes, there may be a "human ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49890492/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/what-bumm...
The 22nd annual Ig Nobels ceremony, with the theme "The Universe," featured the usual doses of zaniness, including the traditional launching of hundreds of paper airplanes and the world premiere of an opera entitled "The Intelligent Designer and the ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49112538/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/speech-ja...
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Franciscus Bernardus Maria "Frans" de Waal, PhD (born 29 October 1948) is a Dutch primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal
Updated May. 21, 2013
Dr. de Waal received his Ph.D. in Biology and Zoology from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in 1977. He completed his postdoctoral study of chimpanzees while ...http://www.psychology.emory.edu/nab/dewaal/
Updated May. 18, 2013
Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos ...http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals.html
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Frans de Waal, PhD Director, Living Links Center C. H. Candler Professor of Psychology, Emory University Email: dewaal@emory.eduhttp://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/people/dewaal.shtml
