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 Gordon Clark FBA

Geography Economic Geography Europe USA, Canada and/or Mexico

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Professor Robert Foley FBA

Human evolution: the evolutionary ecology of extinct hominins; the evolution of human behaviour and culture; prehistory and archaeology of early human populations; evolutionary theory in archaeology and anthropology.

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Professor Lila Abu-Lughod FBA

Lila Abu-Lughod's research interests are anthropology of the Arab world; gender and cultural forms from poetry to television soap operas; the politics and ethics of fieldwork, knowledge production, and representations; violence and memory in Palestine; and the geopolitics of feminism.

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