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Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest pets. In the past decade, we have learned more about how dogs think than in the last century. Breakthroughs in cognitive science, pioneered by Brian Hare have proven dogs have a kind of genius for getting along with people that is unique in the animal kingdom. Brian Hare's stunning discovery is that when dogs domesticated themselves as early as 40,000 years ago they became far more like human infants than their wolf ancestors. Domestication gave dogs a whole new kind of social intelligence. This finding will change the way we think about dogs and dog training - indeed, the revolution has already begun.
About the Author
Brian Hare is the author of the New York Times Bestseller 'The Genius of Dogs'. He is the Director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center and a professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University.Brian received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has published dozens of empirical articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Science, Current Biology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His publications on dog cognition are among the most heavily cited papers on dog behavior and intelligence.Brian's research consistently received national and international media coverage over the last decade and has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, LA Times, the Economist, Discover Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Science Magazine (News) and Time Magazine. He has been a frequent guest on radio programs including NPR (All Things Considered, Science Friday, and Radio-Lab) and BBC Radio. He has also been featured in multiple documentaries from production companies such as NOVA (U.S.) , National Geographic (U.S.) , BBC (U.K.) , RTL (Germany) , SBS (Korea) and Globo- TV (Brazil) . In 2004 The German Federal Ministry of Research and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation named him a recipient of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, Germany's most prestigious award for scientists under the age of 40. In 2007 Smithsonian Magazine named him one of the top 37 U.S. scientists under the age of 36.
