Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal was born on October 29, 1948. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Frans de Waal
Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal (29 October 1948 – 14 March 2024) was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist. He was the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, director of the Living Links Center at the Emory National Primate Research Center, and author of numerous books including Chimpanzee Politics (1982) and Our Inner Ape (2005). His research centered on primate social behavior, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion, and food-sharing. He was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. According to Raymond Corbey's The Metaphysics of Apes, De Waal's work "helped to combat the widespread inclination to see the bad habits of humans as exclusively animal and their good ones as exclusively human."