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
Current post
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Robert Layton FBA
Social evolution & social change in hunter-gatherer & peasant societies; the anthropology & archaeology of art; indigenous rights
Professor Sherry Beth Ortner FBA
Social and cultural theory; historical anthropology; gender and feminist theory; anthropology of late capitalism/neoliberalism; film, media, and the culture industries; political activism. Sherpas of Nepal and anthropology of the Himalayas
Professor David Gellner FBA
The social anthropology of religion, politics and ethnicity in Nepal and South Asia, including caste and concepts of hierarchy, class, borderlands, activism, democracy and elections, Buddhism and Hinduism; Max Weber.
