Josep Call

Who is Josep Call?

Josep Call is a Spanish comparative psychologist specializing in primate cognition. He was born in Catalonia, Spain and received a BA from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and a master's degree and PhD from Emory University, under the supervision of Prof. Michael Tomasello. From 1997 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Then in 1999 he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany where he is currently a senior scientist, co-founder and co-director of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre.

Among other topics, Call has worked to identify the unique cognitive and cultural processes that distinguish humans from their nearest primate relatives, the great apes. He has published two books and nearly two hundred research articles and book chapters on the cognition and behavior of apes and other animals. He is currently the editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology and a member of the editorial board of several other academic journals.