It is with great sorrow that the Eugène Dubois Foundation has taken notice of the passing of Professor Frans de Waal. Frans de Waal was a renowned investigator of the behaviour of chimpanzees and other primates. He had a major impact on our scientific understanding of the behaviour of
The Dutch primatologist and ethologist Prof. Frans de Waal is the first professor to be appointed to the annually rotating Eugène Dubois Chair. He accepted his nomination with a public lecture on 3 October, entitled ‘The measure of all things? Ape and Human Cognition’.