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249. Primatologist Explains the 1% Difference Between Humans & Apes | Richard Wrangham
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is There a Reason Why Humans Escaped Reactive Aggression?
Linguistic ability is the only explanation for how humans escaped what other primates have in terms of alpha males. Language enabled beta males to make a plan and convert their individual tendencies for proactive aggression into an alliance. It's not just simple language, because they've got to be able to work out how to approach someone,. suggest this idea, you know, to float the possibility of killing the offender without themselves being exposed to the possibility of being shopped to the offender and themselves being killed. So it's a complicated business. And I say that to emphasize that other species of humans, like Neanderthals, probably had pretty good language themselves. But I think the ancestors of sapiens must have
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