Daniel Povinelli received his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his doctorate from Yale University. He joined the faculty of the University of Louisiana in 1991, where he is now a full professor. He was awarded a $1 million James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in 1999 and named one of “20 Scientists to Watch in the Next 20 Years” by Discover Magazine in 2000. He is the author of Folk physics for apes: The chimpanzee’s theory of how the world works (Oxford University Press, 2003).