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
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.
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Primatologist Christine Webb talks bias in AI and what we can learn from mosses.
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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).
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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More praise for THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / Penguin Random House), available now wherever books are sold.
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September 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
More praise for THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / Penguin Random House), available now wherever books are sold.
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More NYT coverage of THE ARROGANT APE: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...
6 Books We Loved This Week
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September 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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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)
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)
September 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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)
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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Titles/authors in alt-text.
Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comment 🧵
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Titles/authors in alt-text.
Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comment 🧵
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September 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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
Titles/authors in alt-text.
Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comment 🧵
#Booksky
5 key insights from the book here:
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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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August 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
5 key insights from the book here:
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Excited that the The Next Big Idea Club team has selected my book as a monthly must-read!
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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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August 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Excited that the The Next Big Idea Club team has selected my book as a monthly must-read!
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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.
August 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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.
The New York Times includes THE ARROGANT APE in their round-up of “25 Books Coming in September”!
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25 Books Coming in September
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August 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The New York Times includes THE ARROGANT APE in their round-up of “25 Books Coming in September”!
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Consumed by a human superiority complex, the arrogant ape mirror Hamlet—a hubristic character caught in a tragedy of its own making. (1/3)
August 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Consumed by a human superiority complex, the arrogant ape mirror Hamlet—a hubristic character caught in a tragedy of its own making. (1/3)
Join us at P&T Knitwear September 3! @jeffsebo.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/christine-...
August 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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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.
August 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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.
I am humbled to have received much praise for THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / Penguin Random House) out September 2.
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August 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436/the-arrogant-ape-by-christine-webb
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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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August 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Win a galley copy of THE ARROGANT APE on Goodreads! 10 winners will be chosen, enter by August 11: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...