David Watts is a professor of
anthropology at
Yale University.
As a
physical anthropologist
Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates, particularly from an e ...
he has studied
chimpanzee
The chimpanzee (''Pan troglodytes''), also known as simply the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forest and savannah of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed subspecies. When its close relative th ...
s. He directed the
Karisoke Research Center in
Rwanda
Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
founded by
Dian Fossey for two years, and is doing research on chimpanzees in a long term study at
Ngogo National Park in
Uganda.
External links
PBS Deep Jungle: Meet the Scientists: David Watts
Watts, David P.
Watts, David P.
Year of birth missing (living people)
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