by Frans de Waal · Maxi-Tusquets · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788483834985
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«La edad de la empatía» is Frans de Waal's popular science essay, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Frans de Waal argues that empathy is not exclusive to humans: chimpanzees, bonobos, elephants and dolphins also comfort, cooperate and react to injustice. The primatologist contends that these behaviors are part of our biological heritage and that solidarity has evolutionary roots, against the idea of selfishness.
Number 369 in the Fábula collection. Translated by Ambrosio García Leal; Spanish edition published in 2013. Original title: 'The Age of Empathy'.
For readers of popular science and general audiences interested in animal behavior, evolution and the origins of morality.
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.
