Best Frans de Waal Sayings
- Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear… Attentive
- After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better… Another War
- Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from… Ape
- I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the… Animal
- I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went… Baptism
- If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one… All
- In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold… Africa
- It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender… Ape
- Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on… Animal
- Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed… Arm
- Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt… All
- Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff… Animal
- Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they… Bonobos
- Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in… Ago
- If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there… Adaptive
- The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing. Evolving
- Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making. Ancient
- Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse… Ancient
- The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity… Curiosity
- There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care. Art
- Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this… Aversions
- Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it. Bashing
- There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them. Kindness
- We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals. Actual
- Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive… Anyone
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