Richard Wrangham (born 1948) is a British primatologist at Harvard known for his cooking hypothesis (that cooking drove human evolution) and his research on violence in chimpanzees. His books Demonic Males and Catching Fire are major works of popular evolutionary anthropology.
Developed the cooking hypothesis for human evolution; with Dale Peterson wrote Demonic Males on the evolutionary roots of human violence.
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