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Barbara J. King

    Barbara J. King is a biological anthropologist and professor of anthropology whose research focuses on the social communication of great apes, our closest living relatives. She has studied ape and monkey behavior in Africa and the United States. King has authored three books on anthropology and received multiple teaching awards.

    Human Development in the Twenty-First Century
    How animals grieve
    • An anthropologist proves that animals really do experience emotions, describing through a number of specific cases how elephants, housecats and baboons exhibited signs of grieving upon experiencing a loss of a mate, sibling or child.

      How animals grieve2014
      3.5
    • Human Development in the Twenty-First Century

      Visionary Ideas from Systems Scientists

      • 270 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      In this 2007 collection, a dynamic group of systems scientists consider ways to enhance human development worldwide.

      Human Development in the Twenty-First Century2011