Patterns and Principles in Rens Bod: New paper: The De Waal paradox: can we account for human distinctiveness within the continuity framework?

zondag 15 november 2026

New paper: The De Waal paradox: can we account for human distinctiveness within the continuity framework?

Primatologist Frans de Waal showed that humans are not unique.

But that leaves us with an even bigger mystery. How can relatively small differences between humans and other animals have produced such enormous differences in their impact on the world?

In this open access publication in Behaviour, I introduce the De Waal Paradox and explore how recursion -- building upon the products of earlier processes -- may solve it.

Click here for the full paper.

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5 December 2025: Digital Round Table on the Global Perspectives on the History of the Humanities

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On 12 December at 16.15h, I will give a talk at the KIIP seminar entitled "What kind of knowledge is the pursuit of meaning?". In this talk I will present a longue durée exploration of meaning-making from a global perspective. I argue that a total of 185 distinct meaning-making practices can be discerned that can be grouped into 30 themes. I discuss a number of general patterns and principles that can be found in meaning-making practices across the world and will go into the question as to what kind of knowledge meaning-making actually is. For more info, see https://events.vub.be/kiip-seminar-rens-bod

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zondag 15 november 2026

New paper: The De Waal paradox: can we account for human distinctiveness within the continuity framework?

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