Josep Call is a Spanishcomparative psychologist specializing inprimate cognition.

Call was born inCatalonia,Spain and received a BA (1990) from theUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), and amaster's degree (1995) andPhD (1997) fromEmory University (United States), under the supervision of Prof.Michael Tomasello.

From 1997 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences at theUniversity of Liverpool (UK). Then in 1999 he moved to theMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology inLeipzig,Germany where he is currently a senior scientist, co-founder and co-director of theWolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre. Call also holds the post of Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind at theUniversity of St Andrews, where his focus is on technical and social-problem solving in animals. His work places special emphasis on the great apes orprimatology.^[1]

Among other topics, Call has worked to identify the unique cognitive and cultural processes that distinguish humans from their nearestprimate relatives, thegreat 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 theJournal of Comparative Psychology and a member of the editorial board of several other academic journals.

In 2013 Call was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Psychological Association,^[2] and in March 2016 was elected a Corresponding Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh^[3] In July 2019, he was elected aFellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[4]

• Tomasello, M. & Call, J. (1997).Primate cognition. New York:Oxford University Press.
• Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T. & Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition.Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 1-17.
• Nicholas J. Mulcahy; Josep Call (May 2006). "Apes Save Tools for Future Use".Science.312 (5776):1038–1040.Bibcode:2006Sci...312.1038M.doi:10.1126/science.1125456.PMID 16709782.S2CID 8468216.
• Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2007).The gestural communication of apes and monkeys. Manhaw NJ: LEA.
• Jensen, K., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game.Science, 318, 107–109.
• Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2008). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later.Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 187–192.
• Cornelia Schrauf; Josep Call; Koki Fuwa; Satoshi Hirata (Jul 2012)."Do Chimpanzees Use Weight to Select Hammer Tools?".PLOS ONE.7 (7) e41044.Bibcode:2012PLoSO...741044S.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041044.PMC 3399814.PMID 22815905.
• Call, J. (2017), "Bonobos, chimpanzees and tools: Integrating species-specific physiological biases and socio-ecology," in Hare, Brian & Yamamoto, Shinya (eds.),Bonobos: Unique in Mind, Brain, and Behavior, Oxford UP.

• Official homepage of Dr. Josep Call
• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
• Homepage of the Wolfgang Koehler Primate Research CentreArchived 2010-06-18 at theWayback Machine

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