Location
Nessmith-Lane Conference Center
Event Website
http://cbss.georgiasouthern.edu/frieslecture/
Start Date
10-20-2016 7:30 PM
Document Type
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
de Waal, Frans, "Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?" (2016). Norman Fries Distinguished Lectureship Series. 1.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/fries/Fries/2016/1
2016 Bio Card (2).docx (16 kB)
2016 Bio Card
2016 Bio Card
Oct 20th, 7:30 PM
Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
Nessmith-Lane Conference Center
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/fries/Fries/2016/1
Comments
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 associated with Utrecht University, in 1981, and moved the same year to the USA. He has been a National Academy of Sciences member since 2004, and a Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences member since 1993. Time featured him in 2007 as one of the World's One Hundred Most Influential People. He is also the Director of Living Links at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.