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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Are You Sure That's Safe?

To gain knowledge requires a certain degree of risk. And I suspect that's particularly true when you're out in the wild, observing wild animals. This was a time when the discovery of the social structure of all sorts of large mammals was taking giant leaps forward. All sorts of fascinating differences were emerging and hints were coming through about how you could explain these. When you combine it with the opportunity to think about humans, then we could get a long way beyond the kind of very naive political science interpretations of human behavior.

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