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Oct 27, 2020 · The idea that humans have self-domesticated is, in turn, central to Wrangham’s thesis about the evolution of goodness. He cites reams of scientific studies showing that humans in hunter-gatherer societies tend to have moral standards that, as I read it, require either family or group elders of socially disruptive individuals to impose what he calls “capital punishment.”
Dec 4, 2019 · A new study—citing genetic evidence from a disorder that in some ways mirrors elements of domestication—suggests modern humans domesticated themselves after they split from their extinct relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, approximately 600,000 years ago. "The study is incredibly impressive," says Richard Wrangham, a biological ...
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Wrangham first started thinking of this paradox as part of the team that helped to discover that chimpanzees can be extraordinarily violent, "deliberately making efforts to find individuals to attack and brutally beat up, so that they actually kill them on the spot very often." He said this raised questions for him about the similarities between ch...
Wrangham said that a few years ago, it was observed that humans evolved to be — in some ways — anatomically like domesticated animals. "That goes back to about 300,000 years ago, when — for the first time — what you start seeing is, in our ancestors, a reduction in the size of the teeth being accompanied by a reduction in the maleness, the loss of ...
For an indication of how humans became "self-domesticated," Wrangham said we look at small-scale societies where there's no state intervention. If a man becomes exceptionally aggressive and tries to use his physical dominance to persist with aggressive and violent behaviours, people in small scale societies will take matters into their own hands. "...
Oct 31, 2020 · But, as Wrangham recalls, Hare's work with the Russian foxes, and later dogs and bonobos, did add a great deal of credibility to the idea that a new, agreeable human psychology was the result of ...
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Jan 17, 2019 · Wrangham argues that humans have, in essence, domesticated themselves, and now exhibit the same general character as our own domestic animals: "They mainly have smaller bodies than their wild ancestors; their faces tend to be shorter and don’t project as far forward; the differences between males and females are less highly developed; and they tend to have smaller brain cavities (and thus ...
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Mar 25, 2019 · Anthropologist Richard Wrangham calls it the goodness paradox. In this well-reasoned book, he surveys research from a range of disciplines to try and answer why humans show this odd combination of intense calm in normal social interactions and a ready willingness to kill under certain other circumstances.
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Apr 24, 2020 · Wrangham contends that to understand this duality of human nature, we must incorporate selective breeding and self-domestication into our arguments built on evolution by natural selection. While inter-group warfare selected for more powerful and cooperative groups, the execution of tyrannical males by coalitions of egalitarian men selected for powerful in-group motives and altruism.
