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This episode is a special one as I got to interview a personal scientific hero of mine, and fellow great ape researcher, Dr. Richard Wrangham. He shares his findings and heartwarming stories of some of the chimpanzees he's gotten to know over the years. He's also a prolific write and champion of chimps and communities. Check out the links below to find out more about the important work he and his colleagues are doing in Uganda. Richard Wrangham Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) https://kasiisiproject.org/

Violence and virtue. The Goodness Paradox. Why are humans capable of being the nicest, but also the nastiest, of all species? Join host Dr. Michael Gervais as he sits down with Richard Wrangham, biological anthropologist and author of "The Goodness Paradox," to discuss the intricate relationship between violence and virtues, and how understanding this connection can lead to a more compassionate and just society. Dr. Wrangham shares his research on the evolution of human behavior, challenging common assumptions about our species and shedding light on the complex interplay between our inherent tendencies towards aggression and our capacity for empathy and altruism. Richard’s research has fundamentally changed our understanding of human evolution & behavior, and it was great to learn from him in this conversation. You might wonder how a talk about humanity’s virtue and violence is relevant to thinking about human performance. Understanding humanity’s roots is fundamental to better understanding how we can reach our potential. There are major forces that guide our daily decisions and actions. Some of them come from our culture, our families, or our friends. Some of them are biological or for the purposes of this conversation – evolutionary. Understanding the stuff that makes us is key to better understanding our own potential, the potential of those around us, and perhaps even the potential for humankind. This was a really interesting conversation that took us places I didn’t think we’d go. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. _________________ Subscribe to our Youtube Channel for more powerful conversations at the intersection of high performance, leadership, and meaning: https://www.youtube.com/c/FindingMastery Get exclusive discounts and support our amazing sponsors! Go to: https://findingmastery.com/sponsors/ Subscribe to the Finding Mastery newsletter for weekly high performance insights: https://www.findingmastery.com/newsletter Download Dr. Mike's Morning Mindset Routine! https://www.findingmastery.com/morningmindset Follow us on Instagram , LinkedIn , and X . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Lexman interviews Richard Wrangham, an evolutionary biologist and author of the new book "Masa: The Surprising Story of a Hungry Planet". They discuss the rise of cereal production, and how developing new gluten-free varieties of masa has helped to save many cultures from starvation.

Richard Wrangham, author of "Sickness Unto Death: The Decline and Fall of the Sick Man's Continent," joins Lexman to discuss the history and meaning of sickness.

Were we formed by fire? Celebrating World Chimpanzee Day, July 14th, we gather around the evolutionary fireplace with Dr. Richard Wrangham , professor of anthropology and primatology at Harvard University for a conversation about the rise of cooking and our closest cousins - chimpanzees . Take a listen to this fascinating conversation about how the food that went into cooking pots of old made some lasting impact on our brains and who we are today. Talking Apes is the podcast that gets to the very heart of what is happening with and to apes like us. We explore the world of apes and primates with experts, conservationists, and passionate primate people from around the world. Join us as we unpack their weird and wonderful lives piece by piece. Talking Apes is made possible through generous support from listeners to nonprofit GLOBIO.org. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Talking Apes is an initiative of the nonprofit GLOBIO . Support the show Buy us a coffee to say thanks! BUY OUR MERCH

How can the distinct habits of chimps and bonobos inform us about human evolution and behavior? Today we speak with Richard Wrangham, a research professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. For more than three decades, the English anthropologist, primatologist, and author has studied primate behavior as it relates to human social behavior, evolution, and warfare. Richard Wrangham is also the founder of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project. In this episode, we’ll hear more from Richard about the difference between chimpanzees and bonobos and how each species can help us understand human nature. We’ll also learn more about the domestication of animals and how violence is a commonality across species. Episode Quotes: On how Bonobos are different from Chimpanzees: “It's a society in which the males have been trained to not try and take liberties with the females. And so important is the dominance of the females that if you look at which males achieve dominance among other males, it is almost always a male who's got a living mother, who herself is pretty dominant. And because she helps him in his interactions against all the males, that help is really vital.” On the role of fire in human development: “Fire was the thing that changed us from an Australopithecine into Homo. It changed us from being an ape into a very early kind of human. It gave us our anatomy, it gave us our digestive system, it gave us a way to [...] do other things with our time, spend more time making tools or exploring the environment, hunting[...] So, fire made us Homo and then I think that language made us sapiens.” On the fossil record of domestication: “When we go back in time and see, as we do our ancestors with increasingly broad faces, as they go back, we can be rather confident in reconstructing that they were increasingly aggressive, reactively, aggressive, go back. So you've got those icon anatomical changes. You've also got genetic changes.” Show Links: Faculty Profile Kibale Chimpanzee Project Order Book: Goodness Paradox Order Book: Catching Fire Order Book: Demonic Males Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Humans are the only animals that cook their food. One of the implications of cooking food, as noted by Oliver Goldsmith is, “of all other animals we spend the least time in eating”. In a ground-breaking theory of our origins, primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that the shift from raw to cooked food was a key factor in human development. When our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity as we know it, began. Wrangham notes that as a result of eating cooked food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. Eating cooked plants or meat makes digestion easier and the energy we formerly spent on digestion was freed up, enabling our brains to grow. Cooking increases the proportion of nutrients that can be digested, makes food easier to digest and kills pathogens (harmful bacteria and viruses). Time once spent chewing tough food could be used instead to hunt and undertake other tasks and activities. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created household and shaped family structures, and even led to a gender based division of labour. Richard Wrangham is a professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in 1987. He has conducted extensive research on primate ecology, nutrition, and social behaviour. In his book “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human” Wrangham argues that cooking food is obligatory for humans as a result of biological adaptations and the cooking, in particular, the consumption of cooked food might explain the increase in human brain size, smaller teeth and jaws, and smaller more effective digestive system. Wrangham’s “Catching Fire” presents an interesting narrative that how we came to be the social and intelligent beings that we are today. “Cooking was a great discovery not merely because it gave us better food, or even because it made us physically human. It did something even more important: it helped make our brains uniquely large, providing a dull human body with a brilliant human mind” – Richard Wrangham For more high quality in-depth discussions with researchers and thought leaders, reach us at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/ https://soundcloud.com/bridging-the-gaps

On this week's episode of I, Dave speaks with Richard Wrangham, a British primatologist. Wrangham is co-director of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, the long-term study of the Kanyawara chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda. He is known predominantly for his work in the ecology of primate social systems, the evolutionary history of human aggression (culminating in his book with Dale Peterson, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence ), and most recently his research in cooking (summarized in his book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human ) and self-domestication. Wrangham's latest work focuses on the role cooking has played in human evolution. He has argued that cooking food is obligatory for humans as a result of biological adaptations and that cooking, in particular the consumption of cooked tubers, might explain the increase in hominid brain sizes, smaller teeth and jaws, and decrease in sexual dimorphism that occurred roughly 1.8 million years ago. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .