Christine Webb

Join me for an online conversation with The Plant Initiative May 19th @ 1pm ET Tix: eventbrite.com/o/the-plant-in…

📣New Lecture! Join @cwebb218 for “Scientific Speciesism: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism in Primatology and Beyond.” 📅Saturday, 25 April 🕓4 PM GMT |12 PM EST |9 AM PST 📍Online 🔗Register here: shorturl.at/fsYpx

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New York Public Library (Riverdale) Author Talk 📚 The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters Saturday, March 28, 2026, 12 - 1 PM Register: web.nypl.org/events/program…

In this episode, I speak with primatologist and author @cwebb218 about human exceptionalism – the deeply embedded belief that humans are separate from and superior to the rest of nature. thegreatsimplification.com/episode/213-ch…

📰 "Weeb cuestiona la supremacía de los humanos, a nivel cognitivo y moral, sobre el resto de especies que habitan la Tierra". 'El mono arrogante', de Christine Webb [@cwebb218], en un artículo de opinión de @Hectorfdez en @alicante_ee⬇️⬇️ elespanol.com/alicante/opini…

¡📣Novedad📚! 'El mono arrogante', de Christine Webb [@cwebb218], es un alegato brillante contra el antropocentrismo que revela un planeta lleno de inteligencias y culturas más allá de la humana. ¡Ya en librerías! ⬇️⬇️ planetadelibros.com/libro-el-mono-…

THE ARROGANT APE made the list again! 🫶 Order your first edition now, second printing underway nytimes.com/2025/12/18/boo…

'The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters' by Christine Webb challenges human superiority by revealing nonhuman intelligence and argues that rejecting human exceptionalism can foster a sustainable future. #BookOfTheDay: on.nypl.org/3Kt8eRq

THE ARROGANT APE has been named a New York Times Notable Book of 2025. Floored to be on this list and in such good company!! And grateful to all who helped make it possible 🫶 nytimes.com/2025/11/24/boo…

Christine Webb's provocative and moving book The Arrogant Ape explores our unjustifiable sense of superiority in the living world, laying out the evidence against it, says Elle Hunt #Echobox=1763355265" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/mg2683…

A world beyond human exceptionalism is worth imagining. Join us at TEDxBoston this weekend!

UK publication day! ✨ littlebrown.co.uk/titles/christi…

Thursday! law.yale.edu/yls-today/yale…

@derLibertar @michaelshermer And, being part of nature doesn’t mean we must imitate all of it!! Many behaviors observed in other species (eg killing offspring, territorial violence) aren’t necessarily the best moral guides for human behavior..

@michaelshermer @cwebb218 Interesting. One thought: Assuming we are not “better than” other species and just another part of nature. There are many carnivores in nature, so why should we be concerned about being carnivorous?

Why do we still think we're the goal of evolution? It's a good question, answered by my podcast guest this week, Harvard primatologist Christine Webb @cwebb218 and explored more deeply in her fabulous new book The Arrogant Ape (what, us?!) skeptic.com/michael-sherme…

@derLibertar @michaelshermer Second, our scale of impact is much greater than that of other predators. Other carnivores hunt a limited # of animals, while human meat consumption drives global industrial systems that cause deforestation, pollution, climate change, and the suffering of billions of animals.

@derLibertar @michaelshermer Most carnivorous animals eat other animals because they must (obligate carnivores) - it’s the only way they can survive. Many (not all) humans have the ability to choose what we eat.

As the wool is pulled from their eyes, they come to experience Nature as more alive, animate, and aware. Life and our relationship with the world is never the same. My students’ experiences and my own have encouraged me to collect these ideas in THE ARROGANT APE. (2/2)

I witness my students undergo major transformations as they learn to see past the basic ways their sense of the world has been framed by human exceptionalism. (1/2)