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Richard wrangham, phd was a recent guest speaker at the mcdougall advanced study weekend in santa rosa, ca. Apes and the origins of human violence 9780395877432 by dale peterson. Richard wrangham is ruth moore professor of biological anthropology, curator of primate behavioral biology at harvard university who studies chimpanzees, and their behavior, in. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Dec 11, 2019 wrangham is known predominantly for his work in the ecology of primate social systems, the evolutionary history of human aggression culminating in his book with dale peterson, demonic males. Men, monkeys and mayhem by daniel pinchbeck sunday, november. Wrangham has studied wild chimpanzees in uganda since more about richard wrangham.
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Dale peterson is the coauthor with jane goodall of visions of caliban a new york times notable book and a library journal best book and the editor of her two books of letters, africa in my blood and beyond innocence. Richard wrangham and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. Mar 04, 2019 in this vivid account of human evolution, theres no need to cook the books sunday business post richard wranghams ingredients are freshly gathered from an impressive variety of fields steve jones guardian this is the best kind of scientific writing. Apes and the origins of human violence, and most recently his research in cooking summarized in his book, catching fire. Wrangham studied with the primatologist jane goodall in gombe, tanzania, and he is the author, with dale peterson, of a previous book called demonic males.
I was stimulated to read this book, after reading richard wrangham s subsequent book catching fire. Male female equality is the rule among bonobos, and life appears to be positively tranquilno raids and murders, no rapes or sexual jealousies, no ingroupoutgroup aggression. Additional information from movie mars product description draws on recent discoveries about human evolution to. Wrangham and peterson say that after 40 years of gorilla and chimpanzee watching, it is hard not to conclude that human males are but evolutionary. Apes and the origin of human violence, from 1996, is more continuous with the goodness paradox than is.
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