He's studied apes for 50 years - here's what most people get wrong.

Big and strong? That's not what makes an alpha male, says primatolgist Frans de Waal.

Primatologist Frans de Waal explains the primal instinct that unites humans and chimpanzees.

Can we dispatch with religion altogether?

Biology gives us the general moral sense and the general ability to develop a moral system but the specific rules that we apply in our society are not necessarily given by biology.

Bonobos have sex with everybody basically all the time. Well, not everybody. 

I feel this tendency to come up with an evolutionary explanation for basically everything under the sun is not needed.

The ultimatum game is the ultimate test of fairness, and chimpanzees passed the test by going for the fair options.  

Darwin literally said that many of the social instincts, as he called it, of the animals are represented in our human morality.

Darwin may not have seen that a seemingly altruistic primate can also be quite disastrously aggressive. 

There are many people who love Bonobos precisely for the reason that they are what they are.

Adoption is very common in the human species even though you don’t get much back from it.

I study animals not to understand humans necessarily although that has become my business, of course.

I am optimistic that religion is not strictly needed. But I cannot be a hundred percent sure because there is no human society where religion is totally absent so we […]