Episode 122: Richard Wrangham - How Humans Self-Domesticated Through Homicide

Richard Wrangham is a professor at Harvard, a primatologist, and the author of multiple books including "The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution."

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(00:00) Intro

(00:50) How humans have removed alpha male bullies

(09:59) Christopher Boehm's "Hierarchy in the Forest"

(16:06) Implications of human's self-domestication through violence

(22:03) Bullying male behavior that would lead to execution

(28:45) How the threat of violence influenced our moral impulses

(34:23) Psychopathy and reactive aggression in adult men

(45:25) How can someone spot a psychopath?

(50:07) Jane Goodall and how Richard views human nature

(01:02:53) Cooking and fire

(01:03:13) Richard's views on removing the y chromosome

(01:10:39) Removing genes for extreme aggression rather than men altogether