#229 – Richard Wrangham

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #229:

  1. On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
  2. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
  3. The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
  4. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham

Richard Walter Wrangham is an English anthropologist and primatologist; he is Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. His research and writing have involved ape behavior, human evolution, violence, and cooking. Wikipedia


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