Secret
Science Club presents Primatologist and Best-selling Author Frans de Waal on
the Fascinating World of Animal & Human Emotions
With rigorous
science and riveting storytelling, Frans de Waal jumps off from his new book, Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About
Ourselves.
Drawing on decades of research, Frans de Waal delves into the inner lives of animals, showing that
humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, revenge, guilt, hope, pride, and empathy.
Frans de Waal discusses facial
expressions, the emotions behind human
politics, the role of feelings in survival, as well as “depressed fish, empathetic rats, envious monkeys,” and the chimpanzee
Mama, whose dying farewell to her longtime caretaker provided the inspiration
for de Waal’s latest book.
The takeaway is one of continuity between humans and other animals and the many ways in which species are connected via evolution, physiology, and brain chemistry.
The takeaway is one of continuity between humans and other animals and the many ways in which species are connected via evolution, physiology, and brain chemistry.
Frans
de Waal is 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, He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart
Animals Are?, 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.
BEFORE & AFTER
- Hot off the presses! Snag a signed copy of Frans de Waal's new book, Mama’s Last Hug
-
Groove to wild tunes & try our cocktail of the night
- Stick around for the scintillating Q&A
This edition of the Secret Science Club meets
Monday, March 18, 8PM @ 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 performance space open at
7:30PM. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. (We're expecting a big crowd,
so consider arriving early. First come, first served!)
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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