Christine Webb
@christinewebb.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, NYU
Primatologist, Author of THE ARROGANT APE
https://www.cewebb.com
Primatologist, Author of THE ARROGANT APE
https://www.cewebb.com
Join us this Saturday in Utrecht 🧡
September 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Join us this Saturday in Utrecht 🧡
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...
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...
August 11, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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...
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...
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...
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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July 7, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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...
www.library.upenn.edu/news/sustain...
Join me for an online conversation with The Plant Initiative
May 19th @ 1pm ET
Tix: www.eventbrite.com/o/the-plant-...
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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May 6, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Join me for an online conversation with The Plant Initiative
May 19th @ 1pm ET
Tix: www.eventbrite.com/o/the-plant-...
May 19th @ 1pm ET
Tix: www.eventbrite.com/o/the-plant-...
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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
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
April 15, 2026 at 11:17 AM
📣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
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
April 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
NYC: Saturday, March 28, 2026, 12 - 1 PM
New York Public Library (Riverdale) book event
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New York Public Library (Riverdale) book event
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March 16, 2026 at 1:29 PM
NYC: Saturday, March 28, 2026, 12 - 1 PM
New York Public Library (Riverdale) book event
web.nypl.org/events/progr...
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-...
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/213-...
March 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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-...
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/213-...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
THE ARROGANT APE made the list again! 🫶 Get your first edition now, second printing underway.
THE ARROGANT APE made the list again! 🫶 Get your first edition now, second printing underway.
The Books Times Readers Were Most Excited About This Year
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December 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
THE ARROGANT APE made the list again! 🫶 Get your first edition now, second printing underway.
THE ARROGANT APE made the list again! 🫶 Get your first edition now, second printing underway.
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...
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...
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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...
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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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
www.newscientist.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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
A world beyond human exceptionalism is worth imagining. Join us at @TEDxBoston this weekend.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A world beyond human exceptionalism is worth imagining. Join us at @TEDxBoston this weekend.
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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)
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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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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
Primatologist Christine Webb talks bias in AI and what we can learn from mosses.
#Philosophy
October 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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
Primatologist Christine Webb talks bias in AI and what we can learn from mosses.
#Philosophy
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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).
October 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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).
Reposted by Christine Webb
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!
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!
bookculture.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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!
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!
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).
September 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...
The Books Times Readers Are Most Excited About This Fall
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September 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...
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.
September 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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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September 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What’s it like to narrate your own audiobook? Some insights from This Is the Author: penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/this-is-the-...