Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2022-05-02
Books mentioned on 249. Primatologist Explains the 1% Difference Between Humans & Apes | Richard Wrangham
This conversation was recorded on September 1, 2021. I spoke to Richard Wrangham about his research on ape behavior.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Demonic males
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham examines primate aggression, evolutionary biology, and the parallels between chimpanzee warfare and human conflict.
Discussed“i ran across dr rangham's work back in 1996 he wrote a book with dale peterson demonic males very provocatively titled a study of aggression in primates including human beings and an analysis as well of sex differences”
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Catching Fire
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham is a provocative anthropological study arguing that the harnessing of fire and the invention of cooking were the primary driving forces behind human biological and social evolution.
Discussed“and since then he's published two others catching fire”
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The Goodness Paradox
The Goodness Paradox by Richard Wrangham is a popular science book exploring how human evolution intertwined extreme aggression and deep prosociality.
Discussed“and then more recently the goodness paradox the strange relationship between virtue and violence and human evolution which was published in 2019”
