The Seeds of Humanity

Marc Hauser is a professor of psychology and human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, where he is also director of the Cognitive Evolution Lab and codirector of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Program. His research focuses on the evolutionary and developmental foundations of the human mind, with the specific goal of understanding which mental capacities are shared with other nonhuman primates and which are uniquely human. He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. He is the author of Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think (2000), Moral Minds: How Nature Designed a Universal Sense of Right and Wrong (2006), as well as the forthcoming volume Evilicious: Why We Enjoy Being Bad.