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#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
Lex Fridman Podcast
Oct 10, 2021
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Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence, sex, cooking, culture, and other aspects of ape and human behavior. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - ROKA:
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OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (08:13) - Violence in humans vs violence in chimps (27:45) - Study of violence in chimps (46:40) - Human evolution and violence (1:43:08) - The Goodness Paradox and Catching Fire (1:55:26) - How cooking changed our evolution (2:10:11) - The beauty of the human mind emerges (2:14:18) - A map of how chimps, gorillas, and humans are all related (2:26:50) - Preserving nature (2:34:41) - The meaning of life
