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Bernard Chapais
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Latest papers
Dominance as a competence domain, and the evolutionary origins of respect and contempt.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2017 · first author
Competence and the Evolutionary Origins of Status and Power in Humans.
Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2015 · first author
Anthropology. The deep social structure of humankind.
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2011 · first author
Latest funding
- $125,000
Food distribution regimes and macaque social relationships
NSERC · 2003 · Principal investigator
- $91,300
Kinship and behavior in Japanese macaques
NSERC · 1998 · Principal investigator
- $78,000
Nepotism, non-kin cooperation, and gender in Japanese macaques
NSERC · 1994 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Dominance as a competence domain, and the evolutionary origins of respect and contempt.
Chapais B
Competence and the Evolutionary Origins of Status and Power in Humans.
Chapais B
Anthropology. The deep social structure of humankind.
Chapais B
Food distribution regimes and macaque social relationships
Principal investigators: Chapais, Bernard
Kinship and behavior in Japanese macaques
Principal investigators: Chapais, Bernard
Nepotism, non-kin cooperation, and gender in Japanese macaques
Principal investigators: Chapais, Bernard
Experimental analysis of affiliative interactions in Japanese Macaques
Principal investigators: Chapais, Bernard
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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