Brian Hare
{{Short description|American anthropologist (born 1976)}}
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| field = Anthropology, Psychology
| work_institutions = Duke University
| alma_mater = Harvard University (Ph.D)
Emory University (B.A.)
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Brian Hare (born 1976) is a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University.{{cite web|title=Evolutionary Anthropology|url=https://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/people/brian-hare|website=Duke University}} He researches the evolution of cognition by studying both humans, our close relatives the primates (especially bonobos and chimpanzees), and species whose cognition converged with our own (primarily domestic dogs). He founded and co-directs the Duke Canine Cognition Center.
Biography
Hare obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Psychology from Emory University in 1998. As an undergraduate, he conducted research with Michael Tomasello, where he found that chimpanzees are sensitive to what other chimpanzees can and cannot see, and that domestic dogs can follow humans’ pointing gestures to find food.{{cite journal|last1=McNamara|first1=Chris|title=The Domestication and Social Cognition in Dogs|journal=Bark: The Dog Culture Magazine|date=November 2008|url=https://thebark.com/content/domestication-and-social-cognition-dogs}}{{cite news|last1=Wade|first1=Nicholas|title=From Wolf to Dog, Yes, but When?|date=22 November 2002|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/us/from-wolf-to-dog-yes-but-when.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|work=The New York Times}}{{cite journal|last1=Hare|first1=Brian|last2=Call|first2=Josep|last3=Agnetta|first3=Bryan|last4=Tomasello|first4=Michael|title=Chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see|journal=Animal Behaviour|date=1 April 2000|volume=59|issue=4|pages=771–785|doi=10.1006/anbe.1999.1377|pmid=10792932|s2cid=3432209}}{{cite journal|last1=Hare|first1=Brian|last2=Tomasello|first2=Michael|title=Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use human and conspecific social cues to locate hidden food|journal=Journal of Comparative Psychology|date=June 1999|volume=113|issue=2|page=173|doi=10.1037/0735-7036.113.2.173}}
Hare continued his study of primate and canid cognition at Harvard University, where he was advised by Richard Wrangham. In 2004, he obtained his Ph.D in Biological Anthropology. He joined the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, where he founded the Hominoid Psychology Research Group. He studied great ape cognition in several African sanctuaries, including bonobos at Lola ya Bonobo and chimpanzees at Tchimpounga and Ngamba Island.{{cite news|last1=Dreifus|first1=Claudia|title=Why Bonobos Don't Kill Each Other|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/science/06conv.html?_r=0|work=The New York Times|date=5 July 2010}}
Since 2008, Hare has been a professor at Duke University. In 2009, he founded the Duke Canine Cognition Center, which has tested the cognitive abilities of pet dogs in the Research Triangle area as well as working dogs from organizations such as Canine Companions for Independence.{{cite news|last1=Zimmer|first1=Carl|title=The Secrets Inside Your Dog's Mind|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1921614,00.html|publisher=Time|date=21 September 2009}} He has also researched lemur cognition at the Duke Lemur Center.
Hare co-founded [https://www.dognition.com/ Dognition], a citizen science enterprise where dog owners play a variety of games with their dogs to test the dogs’ cognitive skills.{{cite news|last1=Waldman|first1=Katy|title=A $60 App Promises To Tell You How Smart Your Dog Is|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/08/dognition_brian_hare_s_new_app_will_tell_you_if_your_pet_is_a_genius.html|publisher=Slate|date=8 February 2013}} With his wife, Vanessa Woods, Hare co-authored the popular science book The Genius of Dogs, which was a New York Times Best Seller.{{cite news|title=Best Selling Science Books|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/science/best-selling-science-books.html|work=The New York Times|date=14 April 2014}}
Publications
- Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, "Survival of the Friendliest: Natural selection for hypersocial traits enabled Earth's apex species to best Neandertals and other competitors", Scientific American, vol. 323, no. 2 (August 2020), pp. 58–63.
- Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, "Survival of the Friendliest. Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity". New York: Random House 2020. ISBN 978-0-39959-068-9
Honors and awards
Hare was a 2004 recipient of the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award.
References
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External links
- [https://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/people/brian-hare Duke University Page]
- [http://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/research/dogs Duke Canine Cognition Center]
- [http://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/research/3chimps Hominoid Psychology Research Group]
- [https://www.dognition.com/ Dognition]
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