Brian Hare
Evolutionary anthropologist and author
Brian Hare is an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University who studies how minds evolve, with a focus on dogs.
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American Born 1976
About Brian Hare
Brian Hare teaches evolutionary anthropology at Duke University and founded its Canine Cognition Center. His research looks at how cognition evolved, comparing humans with bonobos, chimpanzees and domestic dogs. He earned his PhD at Harvard University and has published many research articles in journals such as Science and Current Biology. He wrote The Genius of Dogs, a New York Times bestseller. In 2004 he received the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award in Germany. With his wife Vanessa Woods, he cofounded Canines Inc, a company for dog intelligence testing and training.