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 Sarah Franklin FBA FRSB FAcSS
Social study of new reproductive technologies and bioscience; histories and cultures of IVF; gender theory; new kinship studies; reproductive sociology; anthropology of reproduction
Professor Penny Harvey FBA
Anthropology of state effects, infrastructures, engineering, materiality and communicative practice drawing on long term ethnographic research in Peru and more recently in the UK. Current focus on nuclear waste disposal, emergent publics and the politics and temporalities of place-making
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.
