by Frans De Waal · Babel · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782330048563
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«Le bonobo, Dieu et nous» is the essay by biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, published by Babel in paperback (384 pages, in French).
Frans de Waal argues, based on his observations of chimpanzees, bonobos and elephants, that human morality is not a religious or external imposition but an animal evolutionary inheritance. Combining ethology and philosophy, he shows that empathy and cooperation already exist in other primates and proposes rethinking religion and human nature.
Original in English: The Bonobo and the Atheist (2013); French translation by Françoise and Paul Chemla.
For readers interested in ethology, evolutionary psychology and the debate between science and religion.
Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal 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.
