The Nature of Adolescence: A Chimpanzee Perspective

Published on May 13, 2026

Wed., May 13, 2026, 12 – 1 p.m.

Rachna Reddy, Photo by Kevin Grady/Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Rachna Reddy studies social relationships formed by our closest living relatives—bonobos and chimpanzees—to deepen evolutionary understanding of our own. As a Radcliffe fellow, Reddy will ask why adolescence is simultaneously a period of immense vulnerability and of resilience in the human life course, through new cross-species empirical research that integrates perspectives from biology, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience and through writing a coming-of-age novel inspired by the real lives of her wild chimpanzee study subjects, whom she has observed for more than a decade.

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Gazette Classification: Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Speaker(s): 2025–2026 Radcliffe fellow Rachna Reddy
Cost: Free
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Contact Info: [email protected]
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