In his new book Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart
Animals Are? primatologist and best-selling author Frans de Waal takes a deep look at animal cognition and the many
kinds of intelligence in the animal world—from tool-making crows and self-aware
apes to discriminating elephants and octopuses that are slippery (in more ways
than one).
At the next Secret Science Club, Frans de Waal asks: How does intelligence evolve? What clues about the human mind are revealed by studying animal cognition? What mental skills do animals have that we are just beginning to understand?
Frans de Waal has explored how animals think for over three decades. His pioneering work with
chimps and bonobos demonstrated that other species can be as conniving,
conciliatory, compassionate, and politically minded as humans. Director of the Living Links
Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and professor of primate
behavior in the department of psychology at Emory University, Dr. de Waal is
the author of numerous best-selling books including Our Inner Ape, The Age of
Empathy, Bonobos, and Chimpanzee
Politics, as well as over 150 scientific papers, and essays in the New York Times, Science, Nature, and Scientific
American. His work has been widely covered in the media, and he has appeared as a featured scientist on Colbert, NOVA, and the TED Radio Hour.
Before & After
--Hot off the presses! Snag a signed copy of Frans de Waal's new book, Are We Smart Enough to
Know How Smart Animals Are?
--Groove to wild tunes
--Sample our cogitating cocktail of the night, the Smartini
--Groove to wild tunes
--Sample our cogitating cocktail of the night, the Smartini
--Stick around for the
mind-blowing Q&A
This edition of the Secret Science Club meets Monday, April
25, 2016, 8 pm @ the Bell House, 149 7th St.
(between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Subway: F or G to 4th Ave;
R to 9th St.
Doors to the main hall open at 7:30PM. Please bring ID: 21+. No
cover. (We're expecting a big crowd, so get there early!)
COMING UP!
Tuesday May 3, 7:30pm @ Symphony Space
Secret Science Club (North) presents marine biologist Fernando Bretos (Get tickets here and use code SECRET15 to get $15 tickets)
Tuesday May 10, 8pm @ the Bell House
Secret Science Club presents physicist and cosmologist Sean Carroll, free
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