Benjamin Hale

Benjamin Hale received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2008. He is a recipient of a University of Iowa Provost’s Teaching-Writing Fellowship and a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. His novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, was published by Twelve in February 2011.

Science & TechnologyMay 5, 2011

Were You Born Selfish?: An Interview with Frans de Waal

By Benjamin Hale

Both the good and bad in our species come from our primate background, says primatologist Frans de Waal, author of The Age of Empathy.