Ronald de Sousa on being an African ape

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Ronald de Sousa (BA, Oxon, PhD Princeton) was born British in Switzerland and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the author of Rationality of Emotion (1987) and of  Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind (2007). He has published over a hundred articles and lectured in some twenty countries. His current research focuses on the philosophy of biology, emotions and sexuality. When not distracted by those topics, he is supposed to be finishing a book on Emotional Truth.

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