Dr Frans de Waal at a primate research centre in Atlanta, Georgia, 2007 - JACK KEARSE Frans de Waal, who has died of cancer aged 75, was a distinguished Dutch-American primatologist whose research not ...

What can the behaviour of apes teach us about sex and gender? A great deal, according to a new book by primatologist Frans de Waal – and his findings are already stirring controversy Sex and gender ...

NIJMEGEN, Netherlands — American soldiers paid tribute this week to the 48 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division who died crossing the Waal River during Operation Market Garden in 1944. “They ...

Primatologist whose studies showed that non-human apes can behave with compassion, cooperation and cunning A male chimpanzee with his eye on alpha status will set aside his usual indifference to ...

Stephen Hart, Author, Frans de Waal, Author, Frans de Waal, Foreword by Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3839-2 Hart, a biologist, zoological researcher and science journalist, takes a ...

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. The ...

There is a famous psychology experiment in which children are left in a room with one marshmallow each. They are told that if they wait and don’t eat the sweet straight away, they will be given a ...