• Episode 122: Richard Wrangham - How Humans Self-Domesticated Through Homicide

  • Sep 27 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Episode 122: Richard Wrangham - How Humans Self-Domesticated Through Homicide

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  • Richard Wrangham is a professor at Harvard, a primatologist, and the author of multiple books including "The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution."

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    (00:00) Intro

    (00:50) How humans have removed alpha male bullies

    (09:59) Christopher Boehm's "Hierarchy in the Forest"

    (16:06) Implications of human's self-domestication through violence

    (22:03) Bullying male behavior that would lead to execution

    (28:45) How the threat of violence influenced our moral impulses

    (34:23) Psychopathy and reactive aggression in adult men

    (45:25) How can someone spot a psychopath?

    (50:07) Jane Goodall and how Richard views human nature

    (01:02:53) Cooking and fire

    (01:03:13) Richard's views on removing the y chromosome

    (01:10:39) Removing genes for extreme aggression rather than men altogether
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