Initiatives
CANCELED--Apes, Elephants, and the Relational Self: Thinking Through Animal Personhood
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Barbara J. King
4:00 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory Street
Urbana
Event Description
Biological anthropologist Barbara J. King considers the implications of consciously creative and highly variable animal lives for the very popular (and very reductive) models of human behavior coming out of evolutionary psychology. If there is no chimpanzee nature, or elephant nature, what does this tell us about the search for an evolved human nature?
Barbara King is the author of Being With Animals: Why We Obsessed with the Furry, Scaly, Feathered Creatures Who Populate Our World (Doubleday, 2010)
Barbara J. King
Anthropology (William and Mary)