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Christine Webb

@christinewebb.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, NYU Primatologist, Author of THE ARROGANT APE www.cewebb.com

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us this Saturday in Utrecht 🧡
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
TEDx talk just went live! Originally daunting to distill a 300+ word book and 5+ years of work into a 10min talk. But the TED format is incredible - you become a better storyteller, and get to the heart of the matter. Let me know what you make of it 🐒 m.youtube.com/watch?v=zGGB...
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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...
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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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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Join me for an online conversation with The Plant Initiative May 19th @ 1pm ET Tix: www.eventbrite.com/o/the-plant-...
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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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Interspecies Internet @interspecies-io.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📣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
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
NYC: Saturday, March 28, 2026, 12 - 1 PM New York Public Library (Riverdale) book event web.nypl.org/events/progr...
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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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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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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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 Books Times Readers Were Most Excited About This Year
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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...
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 18/11/2025
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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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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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A world beyond human exceptionalism is worth imagining. Join us at @TEDxBoston this weekend.
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
UK publication day! www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/chris...
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Thursday! law.yale.edu/yls-today/ya...
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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)
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Big Think @bigthink.com · 14/10/2025
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
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Tonight! Register here sites.google.com/nyu.edu/wild...
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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).
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book culture @bookculture.com · 25/09/2025
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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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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).
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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...
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The Books Times Readers Are Most Excited About This Fall
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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.
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
What’s it like to narrate your own audiobook? Some insights from This Is the Author: penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/this-is-the-...
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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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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
More praise for THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / Penguin Random House), available now wherever books are sold. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436...
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
More NYT coverage of THE ARROGANT APE: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...
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6 Books We Loved This Week
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Here are this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b... Titles/authors in alt-text. Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comment 🧵 #Booksky
This week's four 20% off new nonfiction picks, discounted through September 13th:
- The Accidental Seed Heroes: Growing a Delicious Food Future for All of Us, by Adam Alexander
- Mother Mary Comes to Me, by Arundhati Roy
- The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President, by Eden Collinsworth
- The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters, by Christine WebbThis week's four 20% off new fiction picks, discounted through September 13th:
- To the Moon and Back: A Novel, by Eliana Ramage
- Trip: A Novel, by Amie Barrodale
- Vianne: A Novel, by Joanne Harris
- We'll Prescribe You Another Cat, by Syou Ishida
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
5 key insights from the book here: nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/big...
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The Biggest Threat to Humanity’s Survival is Not What You Think
Author Christine Webb shares 5 key insights from her new book, The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters.
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Excited that the The Next Big Idea Club team has selected my book as a monthly must-read! nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...
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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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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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.
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The New York Times includes THE ARROGANT APE in their round-up of “25 Books Coming in September”! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
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25 Books Coming in September
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Consumed by a human superiority complex, the arrogant ape mirror Hamlet—a hubristic character caught in a tragedy of its own making. (1/3)
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Join us at P&T Knitwear September 3! @jeffsebo.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/christine-...
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The renowned sociobiologist E.O. Wilson popularized the term “biophilia” (from the root bio, meaning “life,” and philia, meaning “love of”) to describe the natural tendency to seek connections with other forms of life.
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I am humbled to have received much praise for THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / Penguin Random House) out September 2. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436/the-arrogant-ape-by-christine-webb
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Win a galley copy of THE ARROGANT APE on Goodreads! 10 winners will be chosen, enter by August 11: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Book giveaway for The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters by Christine E. Webb Jul 28-Aug 11, 2025
Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 28-Aug 11, 2025. We're giving away 10 galley copies of The Arrogant Ape: The Myth o...
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Once delusions of human superiority and separateness are broken down, we can no longer stand by and watch Nature’s destruction. Nature is not a means to human ends but an interdependent system whose well-being ultimately determines our own.
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The argument of THE ARROGANT APE is that human exceptionalism—a.k.a. anthropocentrism or human supremacy—is at the root of the ecological crisis, giving humans a sense of dominion over Nature, entitled to commodify earth and other species for our own exclusive benefit.
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I wonder, if we truly believe we are so much better than other species, why have we spent thousands of years driving home the point?
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Avery Books @avery-books.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
From primatologist @christinewebb.bsky.social comes #ArrogantApe, an impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves. On sale 9/2. Available for pre-order today! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436...
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