#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution

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
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https://medium.com/@lexfridman 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