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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
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
https://heb.fas.harvard.edu/people/richard-w-wrangham

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

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