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Richard W. Wrangham

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Richard Wrangham (born 1948, PhD, Cambridge University, 1975) is Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in 1987. He has conducted extensive research on primate ecology, nutrition, and social behaviour. He is best known for his work on the evolution of human warfare, described in the book Demonic Males, and on the role of cooking in human evolution, described in the book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Together with Elizabeth Ross, he co-founded the Kasiisi Project in 1997, and serves as a patron of the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP).

Wrangham began his career as a researcher at Jane Goodall's long-term common chimpanzee field study in Gombe Stream ...more

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	Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human 3.88 avg rating — 4,141 ratings — published 2009 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution 4.20 avg rating — 1,072 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard W. Wrangham, Dale Peterson 4.05 avg rating — 976 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution by Richard Byrne (Contributor), Robin Dunbar (Contributor), W.C. McGrew (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collapse Vol. VII: Culinary Materialism by Reza Negarestani (Editor), Robin Mackay (Editor), Richard W. Wrangham (Contributor) 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Primate Societies by Barbara B. Smuts (Editor), Dorothy L. Cheney (Editor), Robert M. Seyfarth (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chimpanzee Cultures by Richard W. Wrangham, Jane Goodall (Foreword), Linda A. Marquardt (Assistant) 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey by Craig B. Stanford, Richard W. Wrangham (Foreword) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science and Conservation in African Forests: The Benefits of Longterm Research by Richard W. Wrangham (Editor), Elizabeth Ross (Editor) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Science and Conservation in African Forests: The Benefits of Longterm Research] [Author: Wrangham, Richard] [August, 2008] by Richard W. Wrangham, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I believe the transformative moment that gave rise to the genus Homo, one of the great transitions in the history of life, stemmed from the control of fire and the advent of cooked meals.”
― Richard W. Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

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“Hundreds of different hunter-gatherer cultures have been described, and all obtained a substantial proportion of their diet from meat, often half their calories or more.”
― Richard W. Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

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“The weight of our guts is estimated at about 60 percent of what is expected for a primate of our size: the human digestive system as a whole is much smaller than would be predicted on the basis of size relations in primates. Our small mouths, teeth, and guts fit well with the softness, high caloric density, low fiber content, and high digestibility of cooked food.”
― Richard W. Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

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