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Episode 122: Richard Wrangham - How Humans Self-Domesticated Through Homicide
Richard Wrangham is a professor at Harvard, a primatologist, and the author of multiple books including "The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution."
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(00:00) Intro
(00:50) How humans have removed alpha male bullies
(09:59) Christopher Boehm's "Hierarchy in the Forest"
(16:06) Implications of human's self-domestication through violence
(22:03) Bullying male behavior that would lead to execution
(28:45) How the threat of violence influenced our moral impulses
(34:23) Psychopathy and reactive aggression in adult men
(45:25) How can someone spot a psychopath?
(50:07) Jane Goodall and how Richard views human nature
(01:02:53) Cooking and fire
(01:03:13) Richard's views on removing the y chromosome
(01:10:39) Removing genes for extreme aggression rather than men altogether
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