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Born and raised in the Netherlands, biologist Frans de Waal has studied and written about chimpanzees and bonobos for most of his career. His office overlooks one of the chimpanzee enclosures at the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta, which is affiliated with Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control. From his desk he’s able to watch the apes squabble, cooperate and console each other all day long. Over the decades, his studies have been instrumental in revealing many of the similarities between human and chimp psychology. He has written numerous acclaimed books on the topic and in 2007 he was on Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people.
Frans de Waal on Readers Lane
Ceaselessly seeking out non-fiction writing on almost any topic, Dave can carry almost forty pounds of books in the pannier pack on his bicycle and knows all the librarians at his local public library by their first names.
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