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Edwin van Leeuwen

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7729-2182

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Research into social diversity in great apes; teaching on behavioural biology.

Link to Utrecht University staff page

https://www.uu.nl/staff/EJCvanLeeuwen

External positions

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Antwerp

1 Jun 2018 → 31 May 2022

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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  • Chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos but target sexes differently

    Bryon, E., Roth, T. S., Torfs, J. R. R., Eens, M., van Leeuwen, E. J. C. & Staes, N., 13 Mar 2026, In: Science advances. 12, 11, p. eadz2433 eadz2433.

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  • Despotism promotes dyadic cooperation through enhanced interdependencies in non-human primate societies

    Bhattacharjee, D., Zijlstra, T. W., Roth, T. S., Belli, E., Calis, S., Escriche Chova, P., Cousin, E., de Jong, J. A., de Laat, E. J. A. M., Guðjónsdóttir, A. R., Janmaat, K. R. L., Jeunink, E. J., Kluiver, C. E., Kuijer, P. E. N., Middelburg, E., Pflüger, L. S., Schroderus, V. I., van Dijk, E. S. J., Verspeek, J. & Waasdorp, S. & 4 others, Zeeman, A. N., Sterck, E. H. M., van Leeuwen, E. J. C. & Massen, J. J. M., 30 Apr 2026, In: Nature Communications. 17, 1, 3513.

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  • EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition

    Sánchez-Amaro, A., Ebel van Wijk, S. J., Molenaar, C., Abuova, A., Mujica-Manrique, L., Leisterer-Peoples, S. M., Beheim, B., Maurits, L., Albiach-Serrano, A., Allritz, M., Altınok, N., Amici, F., Auersperg, A. M., Aureli, F., Bandini, E., Barth, J., Benziad, L., Bläsing, B. E., Bohn, M. & Bourjade, M. & 88 others, Bräuer, J., Broihanne, M.-H., Brosnan, S. F., Bueno-Guerra, N., Bugnyar, T., Buttelmann, D., Buttelmann, F., Cacchione, T., Carpenter, M., Colmenares, F., Crockford, C., Cronin, K. A., de Las Heras, Á., De Marco, A., DeTroy, S. E., Dufour, V., Duguid, S., Dunbar, R. I. M., Eckert, J., Engelmann, J. M., Fagot, J., Fischer, J., Forss, S. I. F., Funk, M., Gergely, G., Greenberg, J. R., Großmann, J., Grüneisen, S., Halina, M., Hanus, D., Heilbronner, S. R., Heintz, C., Hepach, R., Herrmann, E., Hirata, S., Hribar, A., Janzen, G., Kaminski, J., Kanngiesser, P., Kano, F., Kirchhofer, K. C., Knofe, H., Kopp, K. S., Krupenye, C., Laumer, I. B., Levinson, S. C., Liszkowski, U., Manrique, H. M., Martin-Ordas, G., McEwen, E. S., Moore, R. T., Munar, E., Nadal, M., Nawroth, C., Nolte, S., Pelé, M., Potì, P., Rakoczy, H., Riedel, J., Romain, A., Rossano, F., Russell, Y. I., Sabbatini, G., Schäfer, M., Scheumann, M., Schmelz, M., Schmid, B., Schmitt, V., Sebastián-Enesco, C., Seed, A. M., Suda-King, C., Tauzin, T., Tempelmann, S., Tennie, C., Truppa, V., Uher, J., Vaish, A., J C van Leeuwen, E., Visalberghi, E. M., Völter, C. J., Vonau, V., Wascher, C. A. F., Wittig, R. M., Wolf, W., Tomasello, M., Liebal, K., Call, J. & Haun, D. B. M., 1 Jun 2026, In: Scientific data. 13, 1, 805.

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  • From traditions to social cultures: rethinking the evolutionary origins of primate culture

    van Leeuwen, E. C., Apr 2026, In: Behaviour. 163, 3-4 Special Issue: Frans de Waal’s legacy, p. 233-254 22 p.

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  • Social structure as a form of collective intelligence: a new framework

    Brooker, J. S., van Leeuwen, E. J. C. & Clay, Z., 16 Apr 2026, In: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 381, 1948

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