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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 · 16/08/2026
Thanks so much @marie-pierre.bsky.social - I’m glad it resonated
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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
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/chri...
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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 · 15/12/2025
I am so sorry and horrified. Glad you are safe - sending love.
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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 · 14/11/2025
love mosses! Thanks
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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 · 07/11/2025
Thank you!
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thank you!
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Thanks so much!!
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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 · 31/10/2025
Thanks!!
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Glad you enjoyed!!
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Thanks!! 🦟🦗🐝
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Life and our relationship with the world is never the same. My students’ experiences and my own have encouraged me to collect these ideas in THE ARROGANT APE. (2/2)
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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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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Thanks so much 🙏
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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
Thank you Delphine!
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A different way of looking at organisms, one that is possible if we overcome notions of human exceptionalism and think about species on their own terms, is revolutionizing our perception of them and of ourselves (3/3).
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Their discoveries reveal underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life–from the languages of songbirds and prairie dogs, to the cultures of chimpanzees and reef fishes, to the acumen of plants and fungi (2/3).
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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
The process of building and sustaining that relationship can be enacted only by individuals who are motivated by another vision and experience of what the good life might be, who can reimagine this richer relationship and are already bringing it into being (2/2).
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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
Thank you!! Yes - I discuss the history of human exceptionalism including the role of The Enlightenment in Chapter 3 (and revisit some of its actors - like Descartes - throughout)
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / PRH) available now wherever books are sold. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436/the-arrogant-ape-by-christine-webb
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The Arrogant Ape by Christine Webb: 9780593543139 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex.....
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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 · 12/09/2025
Is this a good or bad thing? 🙉
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
How wonderful! Thank you for sharing. Going to order :)
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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 · 06/09/2025
Thank you!
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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 · 03/09/2025
Thanks so much!!
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It was a labor of love for the more-than-human world, and I feel so lucky that I got to write this book and bring it to the wider public. Biggest thank you to everybody who helped make it possible! (3/3)
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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I witnessed these ideas transforming how we understood and experienced other species and the environment. I hope engaging with this work will have as powerful an effect on readers as it did on us. (2/3)
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