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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 Goodness Paradox

There's evidence that part of the contribution to brain size is associated with reactive aggression. So, you know, bonobos are less reactively aggressive than chimpanzees. They have smaller brains than chimpanzees. Females in a whole bunch of species have smaller brains. And there's even some very provocative evidence that if you give testosterone to humans, then it increases the size of the brain,. Even to adult humans.

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