In a book coming out next week called The Bonobo and the Atheist, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that morality is built into our species. Rather than coming to us top-down from God ...

Frans de Waal’s “Different” is a fascinating study of gender among monkeys and apes, but its account of human behavior is less satisfying. By Carl Zimmer DIFFERENT: Gender Through the Eyes ...

Biologist Frans De Waal says hugging, kissing, mourning inherited from primates Dec. 2, 2010 — -- Let a bunch of chimpanzees into a yard filled with watermelons and while a few of them may ...

Dionna Tracy White was last seen Saturday at a residence in East Bethel. Authorities say she may have gone to St. Paul. She is described as a Native American girl who stands 5-feet-3-inches tall ...

Frans de Waal, the prolific Dutch-American primatologist and author whose research revealed the depth and breadth of emotion and intelligence in nonhuman animals, died from stomach cancer on March ...

The primatologist Frans de Waal, who explored empathy and emotion in bonobos and chimps, died last week at 75. His colleague Sarah Brosnan remembers his legacy as both a scientist and friend.

“Look, we didn’t film this for Netflix because we thought it was bad,” Jeanna de Waal said of the special. “We thought it was fantastic.”Credit...Josefina Santos for The New York Times ...

Frans de Waal made an early but influential entrance onto the international scientific stage with his first book, Chimpanzee Politics (1982), which documented the intricate social manoeuvring of ...

A huge part of that understanding comes from the work of primatologist Frans de Waal, a professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the past five decades, he has shown ...