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PROFESSOR FRANS DE WAAL is the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory University and director of the Living Links Center.
Photography by Frans de Waal
He is the author of numerous fascinating books, including 'The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society'.
This prominent primatologist challenges, with his outstanding research, the human assumption that animals lack the characteristics often referred to as humane.
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SCIENCE WRITER
MARY
BATTEN
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MARY BATTEN is a multiple award-winning and Emmy-nominee writer of Science books, films and television programmes, for both children and adults.
Her book 'Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates' offers a fresh approach to the exploration of male/female behavior in the animal kingdom and its implications for human relationships.
Find out about female's true power in evolution in this exclusive interview.
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ARTICLE
'The chemistry
between us'
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Can science explain our prejudices the same way it explains our crushes?
Oxytocin seems to be the key hormone.
Between our cuddling urges and our feelings of ethnocentrism lies a neuromodulator with an empathic face and a hitlerian hidden agenda.
Whilst we'd come to decipher the biochemical pathways of our romantic love manifestations, we had yet to identify components to our feelings of ethnocentrism and even xenophobia.
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