MARC D. HAUSER, an evolutionary psychologist and biologist, is
Harvard College Professor, Professor of Psychology and Program
in Neurosciences, and Director of Primate Cognitive Neuroscience
Laboratory. He is the author of The Evolution of Communication,
Wild Minds: What Animals Think, and Moral Minds: How Nature
Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong. Hauser argues
that to understand what animals think and what they feel, we
must ask about the kinds of selection pressures which shaped
their minds and see the creature for what it is, no more, no
less. Using the tools of evolutionary biology, linguistics,
neuroscience, and cognitive science, he asks questions such as
Why can't animals be taught to speak? How do animals find their
way home in the dark? Do animals lie or feel guilty? Do they
enjoy sex? Why were emotions designed into animal systems? Why
are certain emotions universal and others highly specialized?
Hauser works on both captive and wild monkeys and apes as well
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