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Richard Wrangham

Summary

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.

Core Contribution

Developed the cooking hypothesis for human evolution; with Dale Peterson wrote Demonic Males on the evolutionary roots of human violence.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • evolution
  • cooking
  • violence
  • primates

Notable Works & Achievements

Demonic Males

Catching Fire

The Goodness Paradox

Historical Influences

Jane Goodall evolutionary anthropology

Intellectual Lineage

British primatologyHarvard anthropology

Contemporaries & Peers

Frans de Waal

Minds Influenced

Human evolution studiescooking hypothesis

Intellectual Posterity

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