Love and War: What We Can Learn from Chimpanzees

Two chimpanzees sit next to each other in a patch of grass next to a body of water.
Event starts on this day

Feb

28

2025

Event starts at this time 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
In Person (view details)
Featured Speaker(s): Isabelle Clark and Aaron Sandel
Cost: Free
Join Hot Science – Cool Talks for hands-on activities and demonstrations the whole family can enjoy, followed by a fantastic talk all about what humans can learn from some of our closest ancestors.

Description

Dive into the fascinating world of chimpanzees, exploring what their relationships can teach us about love, conflict and ourselves. Those who study our closest ape relatives know that chimps have a lot to teach us about social bonds and emotions, including the factors that bring primates (chimp or human) together, allow them to maintain feelings of closeness or lead to relationships falling apart.

Hot Science – Cool Talks provides a front row seat to world-class research and is presented by the Environmental Science Institute (ESI) to support leading researchers in sharing their passion about science, technology, engineering and math with the general public. 


Isabelle Clark

Isabelle Clark is a graduate student in anthropology at UT Austin and an emerging primatologist who researches chimpanzee behavior and ecology. Her focus is on social structures and physiology, which includes recording behaviors and group dynamics and collecting biological samples for analysis.

Aaron Sandel

Aaron Sandel is a professor of anthropology at UT Austin whose research explores the social bonds and emotions of our closest ape relatives. He has studied chimpanzees in Uganda since 2012 as co-director of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project and in the UT Primate Ethology and Endocrinology Lab.

Location

Welch Hall Auditorium
105 E. 24th St
Room 2.224

Parking: Speedway Garage
 

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