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249. Primatologist Explains the 1% Difference Between Humans & Apes | Richard Wrangham

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Chimpanzee Principle of Unbalance of Power

'You only do it if you can get away with it and feel very comfortable that you're not going to get hurt in the process,' he says. 'The killers of the Jews and the gypsies and the homosexuals in the Holocaust, very, very rarely got any pushback... They were butchers.' He adds: 'In a shocking addition to that, if you take the ethnographies of people living in small scale societies, including hunters and gatherers and small scale farmers, you find the same thing'

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