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 Felix Driver FBA

Historical geography of British empire & exploration, eighteenth to twentieth centuries; histories of collecting, visual culture & geographical knowledge

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Professor Neil Wrigley FBA

Economic geography with distinctive focus on retail & consumption: specifically retail globalisation & its host-economy impacts; & policy & practice engaged research on retail access.

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Professor Michael Carrithers FBA

The Buddha and Buddhism in Sri Lanka; Jains in India; German commemoration of the Twentieth Century; reasoning and cogency in anthropology; rhetoric culture theory; ethnography as a source of philosophy

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