Brian Hare

Brian Hare is a core member of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience and a Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology, and Psychology and Neuroscience, at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, founded the Hominoid Psychology Research Group while at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, and subsequently created the Duke Canine Cognition Center when arriving at Duke. He has co-authored three books and published over 100 scientific papers including in Science, Nature, and PNAS. His research on dozens of different animal species, including dogs, wolves, bonobos, chimpanzees and humans, has taken him everywhere from Siberia to the Congo Basin. Together with his wife Vanessa Woods he wrote The Genius of Dogs that was a New York Times Bestseller and his newest book, Survival of the Friendliest.