Christine Webb
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, NYU
Primatologist, Author of THE ARROGANT APE
https://www.cewebb.com
- 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 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...
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- A world beyond human exceptionalism is worth imagining. Join us at @TEDxBoston this weekend.
- UK publication day! www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/chris...
- Thursday! law.yale.edu/yls-today/ya...
- 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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- Tonight! Register here sites.google.com/nyu.edu/wild...
- 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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- 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...
- 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-...
- More praise for THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / Penguin Random House), available now wherever books are sold. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436...
- More NYT coverage of THE ARROGANT APE: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...
- 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)
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- 5 key insights from the book here: nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/big...
- Excited that the The Next Big Idea Club team has selected my book as a monthly must-read! nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...
- 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”! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
- 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-...
- 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. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436/the-arrogant-ape-by-christine-webb
- THE ARROGANT APE grew out of a course I taught for years at Harvard. The conversations I had with students there—about unlearning the myth of human exceptionalism—were some of the most thought-provoking and meaningful I’ve ever had.
