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288 - Richard Wrangham: How Humans Caught Fire

288 - Richard Wrangham: How Humans Caught Fire

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Richard Wrangham is the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological
Anthropology, Emeritus, at Harvard University. A primatologist
and biological anthropologist, he has studied wild chimpanzees in
Uganda since 1987 and is known for his work on human evolution,
the origins of violence, and the role of cooking in shaping our
species. In this episode, Robinson and Richard discuss how humans
diverged from our primate ancestors and the evolutionary
importance of learning to control fire. More particularly, they
talk about Richard’s cooking hypothesis, how cooking may have
transformed the human brain and body, the relationship between
fire and culture, and what chimpanzee behavior can teach us about
the origins of human violence. Richard’s books include Catching
Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Demonic Males: Apes and the
Origins of Human Violence, and The Goodness Paradox: The Strange
Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human
Evolution.Richard’s Harvard Profile:
https://heb.fas.harvard.edu/people/richard-w-wranghamCatching
Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human:
https://a.co/d/0iaxEBhyOUTLINE00:00 Puzzles Posed by Human
Beings09:32 The Cooking Hypothesis17:54 Cooking and the
Brain22:12 Diverging From Our Ancestors28:27 Playing with
Fire35:19 How Cooking Shaped Culture51:29 What Does Chimpanzee
Warfare Look Like?01:04:50 Chimpanzee vs Human ViolenceRobinson
Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a JD
candidate in the Law School.