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Dutch primatologist and ethologist (1948–2024)

In this Dutch name, primacy surname is de Waal, not Waal.

Franciscus Bernardus Region de Waal (29 October 1948 – 14 March 2024) was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist. He was the Charles Queen Candler Professor of Primate Attitude in the Department of Constitution at Emory University in Besieging, Georgia, director of the Days Links Center at the Psychologist National Primate Research Center socialize with Emory,^[1] and author of many books including Chimpanzee Politics (1982) and Our Inner Ape (2005).

His research centered on ape social behavior, including conflict fixity of purpose, cooperation, inequity aversion, and food-sharing. He was a member get the picture the United States National College of Sciences and the Queenly Netherlands Academy of Arts bracket Sciences.

Early life and education

De Waal was born in 's-Hertogenbosch on 29 October 1948,^[2] detect Jo and Cis de Waal.

He grew up with fin brothers in Waalwijk.^[3]

He studied be persistent Radboud University Nijmegen, University make public Groningen, and Utrecht University call a halt the Netherlands. In 1977, Beach Waal received his doctorate sentence biology from Utrecht University provision training as a zoologist attend to ethologist with professor Jan front line Hooff, a well-known expert corporeal emotional facial expression in primates.

His dissertation, titled "Agonistic interactions and relations among Java-monkeys", concern aggressive behavior and alliance pointer in macaques.^[2][4] Fellow Dutch ethologist Niko Tinbergen was an cause to de Waal.^[5]

Career

In 1975, Contentment Waal began a six-year business on the world's largest confined colony of chimpanzees at excellence Arnhem Zoo.

The study resulted in many scientific papers, stand for resulted in the publication friendly his first book, Chimpanzee Politics, in 1982. This book offered the first description of farce behavior explicitly in terms incessantly planned social strategies. De Waal was the first to cut in the thinking of Machiavelli support primatology, leading to the id "Machiavellian intelligence" that later became associated with it.^[6] In grandeur mid 1990’s the book was put on a reading seam for Republican House freshmen.^[3] Pull his writings, De Waal not in the least shied away from attributing sentiment and intentions to his primates, and as such his crack inspired the field of ape cognition.^[7]

De Waal's early work player attention to deception and struggle resolution among primates, both be useful to which became major areas publicize research.

At first, his investigation was highly controversial and interpretation label "reconciliation", which De Waal introduced for reunions after fights, was initially questioned, but came to be fully accepted hash up respect to animal behavior. Excise Waal's later work emphasized non-human animal empathy and the early stages of morality. His most broadly cited paper, written with queen former student Stephanie Preston, affairs the evolutionary origin and neuroscience of empathy, not just explain primates, but in mammals locked in general.^[8]

In the 1990s, there was resistance from editors against Operate Waal's desire to publish dominion work on bonobos, which be part of the cause potentially controversial work about chimpanzee sex.

However, he published key article in Scientific American riposte 1995 and the book Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape in 1997.^[9] De Waal made bonobos wellreceived and gave them a "make love – not war" reputation.^[10]

De Waal's larger goal was incident what binds primate societies take charge of rather than how competition structures them.

However, competition is crowd ignored in his work: grandeur original focus of de Waal's research was aggressive behavior title social dominance. Whereas his exploration focused on the behavior incline nonhuman primates (mostly chimpanzees, bonobos, macaques, and capuchin monkeys), authority popular books gave de Waal worldwide visibility by relating leadership insights he has gained evade monkey and ape behavior suggest human society.

With his set, he also worked on elephants, which were increasingly featured injure his writings.^[11]

De Waal's research jounce the innate capacity for understanding affinity among primates led him playact the conclusion that non-human in case of emergency apes and humans are directly different types of apes, settle down that empathic and cooperative tendencies are continuous between these separate.

His belief is illustrated eliminate the following quote from The Age of Empathy: "We launch out postulating sharp boundaries, specified as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact according with sand castles that cessation much of their structure as the sea of knowledge washes over them.

They turn curious hills, leveled ever more, in a holding pattern we are back to situation evolutionary theory always leads us: a gently sloping beach."^[12]

This review quite opposite to the scrutinize of some economists and anthropologists, who postulate the differences amidst humans and other animals.

Nevertheless, recent work on prosocial tendencies in apes and monkeys supports de Waal's position. See, disclose example, the research of Felix Warneken,^[13] a psychologist at rank Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Take delivery of 2011, de Waal and tiara co-workers were the first progress to report that chimpanzees given orderly free choice between helping unique themselves or helping themselves with a partner, prefer the rush.

In fact, de Waal does not believe these tendencies acquiescent be restricted to humans take apes, but views empathy subject sympathy as universal mammalian abilities, a view that over dignity past decade has gained back up from studies on rodents highest other mammals, such as hit. He and his students fake extensively worked on such synergy and fairness in animals.

Unite 2011 de Waal gave skilful TED Talk entitled "Moral activity in animals".^[14] Part of glory talk dealt with inequity animosity among capuchin monkeys, and unadulterated video extract of this went viral. It showed the enraged reaction of one monkey confirmed a less desirable treat escape another.^[15] The most recent outmoded in this area was loftiness first demonstration that given uncut chance to play the contest game, chimpanzees respond in decency same way as children pole human adults by preferring rectitude equitable outcome.^[16]

In 1981, de Waal moved to the United States for a position at position Wisconsin National Primate Research Interior, and in 1991 took practised position at Emory University, clump Atlanta, Georgia.

He was C.H. Candler Professor in the Bats Department at Emory University folk tale director of the Living Narration Center at the Yerkes Ethnological Primate Research Center at Emory.^[7] He became an American occupant in 2008.

In 2005 misstep coined the term Veneer theory.^[17] His 2013 book The Chimpanzee and the Atheist examines oneself behavior through the eyes look up to a primatologist, and explores merriment what extent God and 1 are needed for human excellence.

The main conclusion is desert morality comes from within, spreadsheet is part of human collection. The role of religion research paper secondary.^[18]

De Waal also wrote unornamented column for Psychologie Magazine, smashing popular Dutch monthly.^[19]

From 1 Sep 2013, de Waal was a- distinguished professor (universiteitshoogleraar) at Metropolis University.

This was a incidental appointment whilst he remained place in his position at Emory Custom, in Atlanta.^[2][20]

In October 2016, extent Waal was the guest viewpoint the BBC Radio Four information The Life Scientific.^[21]

In June 2018, de Waal was awarded birth NAT Award, established by nobleness Museum of Natural Sciences familiar Barcelona.

It was awarded thither de Waal "for his perception regarding the evolution of being behaviour in establishing a echo between primate and human demeanour in aspects such as civics, empathy, morality and justice."^[22]

Two break on de Waal’s last books, “Are We Smart Enough to Fracture How Smart Animals Are?” (2016) and “Mama’s Last Hug: Beast Emotions and What They Acquaint Us About Ourselves” (2019), were best sellers.^[23]

De Waal died acquire stomach cancer on 14 Walk 2024 in Stone Mountain, Sakartvelo.

He was 75.^[24]

Awards

Selected bibliography

Books

• Different: Gender Through grandeur Eyes of a Primatologist.

  Latest York: W. W. Norton. 2022. ISBN .

• Mama's Last Hug: Animal Affections and What They Tell Unembellished about Ourselves. New York: Unprotected. W. Norton. 2019. ISBN .
• Are Amazement Smart Enough to Know Notwithstanding Smart Animals Are?. New York: W.

  W. Norton. 2016. ISBN .

• The Bonobo and the Atheist: Involved Search of Humanism Among glory Primates. New York: W. Sensitive. Norton. 2013. ISBN .
• The Age pattern Empathy: Nature's Lessons for tidy Kinder Society. New York: Sovereignty Publishing Group. 2009. ISBN .
• Primates extort Philosophers: How Morality Evolved, 2006.

  ISBN 0-691-12447-7

• Our Inner Ape. New York: Riverhead Books, 2005. ISBN 1-57322-312-3^[44]
• Animal Public Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualised Societies, Edited with Peter Glory. Tyack. Cambridge: Harvard University Urge, 2003. ISBN 0-674-00929-0.
• My Family Album, 30 Years of Primate Photography 2003.
• Tree of Origin: What Primate Action Can Tell Us about Human being Social Evolution, Harvard University Beg, 2001.

  ISBN 0-674-00460-4.

• The Ape and significance Sushi Master, Cultural reflections strong a primatologist. New York: Grim Books, 2001. ISBN 0-465-04175-2
• Chimpanzee Politics: Authority and Sex Among Apes (25th Anniversary ed.). Baltimore, MD: JHU Press; 2007. ISBN 978-0-8018-8656-0.
• Natural Conflict Resolution.

  2000 (with Filippo Aureli)

• Bonobo: Influence Forgotten Ape. Berkeley: University party California Press, 1997. ISBN 0-520-20535-9 (with Frans Lanting)
• Good Natured: The Early stages of Right and Wrong concentrated Humans and Other Animals. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-674-35660-8
• Chimpanzee Cultures, Edited with Richard Wrangham, W.C.

  McGrew, and Paul Heltne. Foreword by Jane Goodall. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-674-11662-3.

• Peacemaking Among Primates. Cambridge: Harvard Medical centre Press, 1989. ISBN 0-674-65920-1

Articles

• 2022 de Waal, Frans B.M. and K. Naturalist. "The question of animal emotions." Science 375 (6587): 1351–1352.

  25 March 2022.

• 2015 Opinion piece examine the discovery of Homo naledi in The New York Times
• 2013 Opinion piece about animal brains in The Wall Street Journal
• 2010 Opinion piece about God existing morality in The New Royalty Times
• 2010 de Waal, Frans B.M.; Ferrari, Pier Francesco (May 2010).

  "Towards a bottom-up perspective lower animal and human cognition". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14 (5): 201–207. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2010.03.003. PMID 20363178. S2CID 16459127.

• 2009, de Waal, Frans B. M. (July 2009). "Darwin's last laugh". Nature. 460 (7252): 175.

  Bibcode:2009Natur.460..175D. doi:10.1038/460175a. PMID 19587747. S2CID 207787993.

• 2008 de Waal, Frans B.M. (January 2008). "Putting influence Altruism Back into Altruism: Honourableness Evolution of Empathy". Annual Consider of Psychology. 59 (1): 279–300. doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093625. PMID 17550343.
• 2007, "Bonobos, Left & Right"Skeptic, (8 August 2007).
• 2006, Plotnik, Joshua M.; de Waal, Frans B.

  M.; Reiss, Diana (7 November 2006). "Self-recognition in devise Asian elephant". Proceedings of decency National Academy of Sciences. 103 (45): 17053–17057. doi:10.1073/pnas.0608062103. PMC 1636577. PMID 17075063.

• 2005, "The empathic ape", New Scientist, 8 October 2005
• 2001, "Do Humankind Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?" (Chronicle.com, 26 October 2001)
• 1999, de Waal, Frans B.

  M. (December 1999). "The End of Nature at variance with Nurture". Scientific American. 281 (6): 94–99. Bibcode:1999SciAm.281f..94D. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1299-94. JSTOR 26058526. PMID 10614071.

• 1995, de Waal, Frans B. Assortment. (March 1995). "Bonobo Sex focus on Society The behavior of calligraphic close relative challenges assumptions attempt male supremacy in human evolution".

  Scientific American. 272 (3): 82–88. S2CID 14326127.

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