"I think we can defend the view that there are two different sorts of moral gap, an ‘affection gap’ and a ‘performance…"

"I first saw them in 1978. At the time, I knew a lot about chimps, because I had been studying them. I saw the bonobos…"

"At the time, I was interested in reconciliation after fights, and I wanted to know how bonobos did it compared to chi…"

"If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanz…"

"It is true that the chimpanzee is dominance-oriented, violent, territorial. But it's also cooperative in many ways, a…"

"Imagine that we didn't know the chimpanzee, that all we knew were those bonobos who have sex all the time and are pea…"

"I think if we study the primates, we notice that a lot of these things that we value in ourselves, such as human mora…"

"To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fu…"

"I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees, gorill…"

"The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause …"