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#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
Lex Fridman Podcast
Chimps, Gorillas and Humans - What Do You Find Beautiful and Fascinating About Each?
In Africa, straddling the equator, there is a strip of rainforest that relies on combination of high temperatures and rainfall. Throughout those countries, you have chimpanzees, although they've gone extinct in two of them. In just a fraction of them, but it was five countries, you've got gorillas, where there are mountains. And in one country, on the left bank of the Great Congo River, you have bonobos. All of which are very similar in much of their way of life. They walk on their knuckles through the forest, looking for fruit trees and eating herbs when they can't find fruits. So all of these are natural consequences of just coming up with
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