Professor Richard Wrangham FBA

Chimpanzee social ecology; primate and human behaviour in a comparative framework, including influences of diet, violence and culture; self-domestication and the evolution of reduced aggression; primate conservation
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Anthropology

Current post

Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Publications

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human 2009

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence 1996

Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans 2009

Chimpanzee Cultures 1994

Primate Societies 1986

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Yael Navaro FBA

Professor Yael Navaro FBA is a social anthropologist who specializes in the study of politics, the state, and political violence and its aftermaths.

Professor Yael Navaro FBA

Professor Katherine Gibson FBA

Feminist economic geography; theorising diverse economies; poststructuralist participatory action research; community economic practices and place-based development in Australasia; postcapitalist politics

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