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Oct 10, 2021
Human evolution and violence
Richard Wrangham: Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #229
Lex Fridman
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Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence, sex, cooking, culture, and other aspects of ape and human behavior. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:49 – Violence in humans vs violence in chimps
20:21 – Study of violence in chimps
39:16 – Human evolution and violence
1:35:45 – The Goodness Paradox and Catching Fire
1:48:02 – How cooking changed our evolution
2:02:48 – The beauty of the human mind emerges
2:06:54 – A map of how chimps, gorillas, and humans are all related
2:19:26 – Preserving nature
2:27:17 – The meaning of life
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