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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.”
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution is a book by British primatologist Richard Wrangham. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Wrangham argues that humans have domesticated themselves by a process of self-selection similar to the selective breeding of foxes described by Dmitry Belyayev , a theory first proposed by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in the early ...
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 ...
Jan 18, 2011 · Wrangham states “whether domestic or wild, mammal or insect, useful or pest, animals adapted to raw diets tend to fare better on cooked food” (pp. 39–40). Wrangham proposes a theory as to why humans are “brainier” than other species, which is rooted in evolutionary logic.
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Dec 16, 2009 · Richard Wrangham: Cooking is what made us human. By Jeremy Webb. 16 December 2009. Adapting to cooking. (Image: Rick Friedman/Corbis) What was the central mystery of human evolution that you were ...
Sep 16, 2009 · Wrangham offers us three possibilities, each associated with a major anatomical transition: 1.8 million years ago (the transition into Homo erectus), 800,000 years ago (the transition into archaic humans) and 200,000 years ago (the transition into anatomically modern humans). His pitch is in favor of the first, partly on the grounds that the move into a more open habitat would, for the first ...
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Wrangham believes cooking, by providing quick calories, allowed human males to focus on hunting, leaving gathering and cooking to the females. This would explain the eventual sexual division of labor and our practice of sharing food. But it also left cooks vulnerable to exploitation. Cooking, he points out, “is a conspicuous and lengthy ...
