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Brian Hare

Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology
Evolutionary Anthropology
Duke Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708-0383
004 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


Testing the effect of a major transition inn cognitive evolution

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Templeton World Charity Foundation · 2022 - 2025

Using Longitudinal Cognitive Developmental Measures and Socialization to Predict and Enhance Military Working Dog Performance

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2020 - 2025

The Evolution of Comity: An Interdiscilinary Exploration of the Nature, Developmental Origins and Future of Shared Humanity

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by John Templeton Foundation · 2022 - 2025

Longitudinal Cognitive and Emotional Development in Working Dog Puppies

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025

Longitudinal comparison of cognitive and emotional development in assistance dog puppies reared in two different ways

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation · 2020 - 2024

Can playful learning increase success in canine good citizenship training?

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Stanton Foundation · 2018 - 2021

Creating an Online Tool for Large-Scale Comparative Cognition Collaborations

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Templeton World Charity Foundation · 2017 - 2019

One Health Innovation Fellowships for Zoonotic Disease Research in Mongolia

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2019

Characterizing Comparative Cognitive Development to Predict and Enhance Military Working Dog Performance

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2016 - 2019

2016-17 Next Generation Canine Research Fellowship

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Stanton Foundation · 2016 - 2017

Social Integration in Female Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in Gombe National Park, Tanzania and Tchimpounga Sanctuary, Republic of Congo

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation · 2014 - 2017

Cognitive Predictors of Assistance Dog Success

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation · 2014 - 2016

Reducing the Demand for Bonobo Bushmeat: An Efficacy Assessment of Lola ya Bonobo's Conservation Education Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Academy of Sciences · 2014 - 2015

Identifying Temperamental and Cognitive Traits that Lead to Successful IED Detector Dogs

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2012 - 2015

Collaborative Research: Genetic Bases for the Evolution of Human Diet

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2008 - 2014

Identifying the cognitive traits of successful companion dogs

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2013

Bonobos, Chimpanzees and the Developmental Origins of Human Cognition

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2013

External Relationships


  • Friends of Bonobos
  • Penguin Random House

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