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1. www.newyorker.com › books › under-reviewDid Capital Punishment Create Morality? - The New Yorker

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   February 13, 2019. In “The Goodness Paradox,” Richard Wrangham posits that civilization was founded on capital punishment—or, to give it its anthropological name, “coalitionary proactive ...

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2. news.harvard.edu › gazette › storyAuthor examines the strange relationship between good and evil

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   Jan 28, 2019 · Wrangham says his new book, “The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution,” is his first attempt to examine his own species in detail. He will discuss his theory about aggression as it connects to capital punishment on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Science Center Book Talk, Hall C, 1 Oxford St.

3. thehumanist.com › magazine › november-december-2020The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue ...

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   Oct 27, 2020 · 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.” Capital punishment is central to Wrangham’s construct of how humans self-domesticated ...

4. link.springer.com › article › 10Goodness by Execution: a Review of Richard Wrangham (2019),

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   Apr 24, 2020 · Capital punishment may have contributed to the development and successful rise of peaceful urban environments, morality, governments, and even religion-seeking tendencies. Wrangham also notes, however, that capital punishment, “enables the functioning of states, and gives us war, castes, the butchery of helpless adults, and many other forms of irresistible coercion.”

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   Jan 17, 2019 · Richard Wrangham advances a bold thesis for how this came about: evolutionary changes driven by hundreds of thousands of years of capital punishment that effectively "self domesticated" humans, much like the process that turned reactively aggressive wolves into tame dogs and many other examples of domestication.

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6. phys.org › news › 2019-01-primatologist-strangePrimatologist's new book examines the strange relationship ...

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   WRANGHAM: Some of the scholars writing in this area have argued that, with the evolution of weapons, humans were able to develop capital punishment because with a weapon you can surprise someone ...

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   Why did Wrangham use capital punishment?

   • Capital punishment is central to Wrangham’s construct of how humans self-domesticated: small groups of humans devised social norms and mechanisms to kill individuals who engaged in excessive reactive violence against members of their own tribe. In the process, they cut violent humans out of the breeding pool over thousands of years.

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   What is Wrangham's 'execution hypothesis'?

   • Execution, combined with other selective forces, selected for sociality and cooperativeness in humans. Wrangham’s “execution hypothesis” thus proposes that “selection against aggressiveness and in favor of greater docility came from execution of the most antisocial individuals” (p. 149).

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   What does Richard Wrangham say about aggression?

   • Biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues for the necessity of social tolerance and the control of aggression in his work tracing the evolutionary histories of reactive and proactive aggression in 'The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution'.

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   Where did capital punishment come from?

   • Capital punishment “was present in all the earliest civilizations, from Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, and Roman to Indian, Chinese, Inca, and Aztec” (p. 167). Wrangham draws on ethnographic records to document that human societies have routinely executed tyrannical men.

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   Did ancient civilizations use capital punishment?

   • As Wrangham reviews, every known ancient civilization deployed capital punishment against antisocial and violent troublemakers, as reflected in evidence of ancient remains. Capital punishment “was present in all the earliest civilizations, from Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, and Roman to Indian, Chinese, Inca, and Aztec” (p. 167).

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   Why does Wrangham think killing is a good idea?

   • Wrangham implies that evolution by natural selection has made the killing of outgroup strangers sometimes pleasurable, because those that found greater enjoyment in killing tended to reap the benefits, such as the acquisition of status and resources. An evolutionary perspective therefore suggests a diabolical but adaptive logic for war and killing.

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   As Wrangham reviews, every known ancient civilization deployed capital punishment against antisocial and vio-lent troublemakers, as reflected in evidence of ancient remains. Capital punishment “was present in all the ear-liest civilizations, from Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, and Roman to Indian, Chinese, Inca, and Aztec ...