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Demonic males offers startling new answers to these questions. In addition, professor wrangham is a leader in primate behavioral ecology. In this stunningly original book, richard wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to homo erectus. Richard wrangham phd, cambridge university, 1975 is ruth b.
He has conducted extensive research on primate ecology, nutrition, and social behavior. I was stimulated to read this book, after reading richard wrangham s subsequent book catching fire. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. Wrangham biological anthropologyharvard univ coauthor. And those of us who have dedicated ourselves to teach. He is the coauthor of demonic males and coeditor of chimpanzee cultures. Dale peterson is the coauthor with jane goodall of visions of caliban a new york times notable book and a library journal best book and the editor of her two books of letters, africa in my blood and beyond innocence. Ebook demonic males as pdf download portable document format. Moore professor of biological anthropology at harvard university and founded the kibale chimpanzee project in 1987. Men, monkeys and mayhem by daniel pinchbeck sunday, november. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Apes and the origins of human violence, and most recently his research in cooking summarized in his book, catching fire. Demonic males draws a comparison between humans and chimpanzees which share. By richard wrangham and dale peterson houghton mifflin.
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Demonic males draws a comparison between humans and chimpanzees which share 98% of the same dna in the way both species engage in violence with other members of the species. Go to the first chapter of demonic males go to chapter one. Apes and the origins of human violence, by richard wrangham and dale peterson. It develops theories about chimpanzee and human violence based on the evidence not only of richard and dales own observations, but also from a. Richard wrangham is the ruth moore professor of biological anthropology at harvard university and curator of primate behavioural biology at the peabody museum. Moore professor of biological anthropology at harvard university. He is a professor of biological anthropology at harvard university and the coauthor of the book demonic males. The assumption although never stated explicitly is that humans and chimps engage in the same. Our primate male cousins gang up to murder and rape, expand their territory and genes, and fight to get to the top.
Travels, storyville usa, eating apes, and with richard wrangham demonic males. Jul 24, 2017 chimp guy knocks baboon guys upbeat view of human war. Demonic males apes and the origins of human violence by richard wrangham and dale peterson. He spent two summers, he recalls, learning to net, ring and study birds on fair isle in scotland and then nine months in kafue national park in zambia assisting in a behavioural study of an antelope before reading zoology at the university of oxford. Moore professor of biological anthropology, harvard university.
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