Christine Webb
@christinewebb.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, NYU Primatologist, Author of THE ARROGANT APE https://www.cewebb.com
THE ARROGANT APE has been short-listed for the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability. Congrats to the other candidates, in good company. www.library.upenn.edu/news/sustain...
Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability
This annual award acknowledges outstanding contributions to the global discourse on environmental sustainability, with a specific focus on books that have a substantial impact on the public's understa...
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Join me for an online conversation with The Plant Initiative May 19th @ 1pm ET Tix: www.eventbrite.com/o/the-plant-...
The Plant Initiative
Plants are aware and intelligent beings as demonstrated by recent scientific findings. Yet, plants typically continue to be treated as mere objects for use. In response, The Plant Initiative was start...
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📣New Lecture! Humans are often seen as an apex species, but is this accurate? Join @christinewebb.bsky.social 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
NYC: Saturday, March 28, 2026, 12 - 1 PM New York Public Library (Riverdale) book event web.nypl.org/events/progr...
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In this episode, Nate speaks with primatologist and author @christinewebb.bsky.social about human exceptionalism – the deeply embedded belief that humans are separate from and superior to the rest of nature. www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/213-...
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Confronting Human Exceptionalism — Population Balance
The myth of human exceptionalism casts humans as separate from and superior to the rest of life. Primatologist Christine Webb, author of The Arrogant Ape , shows how science and culture reinforce thi...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b... THE ARROGANT APE made the list again! 🫶 Get your first edition now, second printing underway.
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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 🫶 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
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
Smart new book takes an axe to the myth of human exceptionalism
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
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A world beyond human exceptionalism is worth imagining. Join us at @TEDxBoston this weekend.
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. As the wool is pulled from their eyes, they come to experience Nature as more alive, animate, and aware. (1/2)
If we build AI to think like humans, are we just teaching it to repeat our blind spots? Primatologist Christine Webb talks bias in AI and what we can learn from mosses. #Philosophy
Pioneering scientists past and present have broken from the pressures and limitations of human exceptionalist thinking. Charles Darwin, Lynn Margulis, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Frans de Waal–their work looms large in my own research (1/3).
yes this is a post to let you know event season starts tonight bookculture.com/upcoming-eve... Mark Mazower TONIGHT! @alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social & @christinewebb.bsky.social in convo Monday Stephanie Cowell on her Brontë novel Tuesday @bernardharcourt.bsky.social on Foucault Wednesday & more!
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Corporate greed and deception, capitalist economics, and a lack of political will certainly play an outsize role. But we don’t just need an overhaul of these institutions; we need a new relationship to the world (1/2).
The Arrogant Ape is #2 for non-fiction books New York Times readers say they’re most eager to dive into this season. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...
The Books Times Readers Are Most Excited About This Fall
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What does it mean to be human? The word “human” itself derives from the root world humus, meaning “earth.” To be human thus means to be of the earth, not apart from or better than any of the other beings with whom we share this planet.
What’s it like to narrate your own audiobook? Some insights from This Is the Author: penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/this-is-the-...
On the Podcast: Christine Webb, Jim Reese, and Reza Aslan - Penguin Random House Audio
S10 E35: Go behind the mic with the authors of The Arrogant Ape, Coming to a Neighborhood Near You, and No god But God.
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More praise for THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / Penguin Random House), available now wherever books are sold. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436...
More NYT coverage of THE ARROGANT APE: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...
6 Books We Loved This Week
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THE ARROGANT APE IS OUT TODAY! The idea for this book began in 2019 in a seminar course I taught at Harvard. With each class discussion, it felt like my students and I were imagining and crafting a world beyond human exceptionalism. It was the world we wanted to live in. (1/3)
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Excited that the The Next Big Idea Club team has selected my book as a monthly must-read! nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...
The Next Big Idea Club’s September 2025 Must-Read Books
These titles will be included in our longlist of potential titles for Season 27 of the Next Big Idea Club.
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Once delusions of human superiority and separateness are broken down, we can no longer stand by a watch Nature’s destruction. Nature is not a means to human ends but an interdependent system whose well-being ultimately determines our own.
