Daniel J. Povinelli1

joined with a few teammates of mine from the debate squad and founded the Liberate the Chimps Society — the LTCS! Daniel J. Povinelli is Professor of Biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. After studying as an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he received his B.S. in Anthropology with a minor in Zoology (1986), he studied Physical Anthropology and earned his doctorate from Yale University (1991). As a scientist, his primary interests have centered on the characterization of higher-order cognitive functions in great apes and humans. He is the recipient of a National Science Presidential Young Investigator Award, the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, and a James S. McDonnell Foundation Centennial Fellow Award. His most recent book, World Without Weight: Perspectives on an Alien Mind (Oxford, 2012), investigates the core differences between human and chimpanzee conceptions of weight. His most recent work is an experimental lecture format in collaboration with K. Brandon Barker entitled Confessions of a Former Monkey Mind Doctor.