Richard W. Wrangham
Harvard University
307 Papers
2K Citations
Richard W. Wrangham is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Aggression. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 288 publications. Previous affiliations of Richard W. Wrangham include Stellenbosch University & University of Cambridge.
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Papers
Control of Fire in the Paleolithic: Evaluating the Cooking Hypothesis
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the commitment to fire use must have arisen in the mid-Pleistocene or later, and that the early Pleistocene anatomical changes seem too small to explain the substantial effect expected from the development of cooking.
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) modify grouping and vocal behaviour in response to location-specific risk
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined data from the Kanyawara chimpanzee community, Kibale National Park, Uganda to test for evidence of two strategies: travelling in larger subgroups (parties) and travelling silently.
Mortality rates among Kanyawara chimpanzees.
TL;DR: Life table data from Kanyawara suggest an important downward revision in adult mortality rates for wild chimpanzees, but they do not challenge the existence of an important difference inadult mortality between humans and chimpanzees.
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Breed Differences in Domestic Dogs' (Canis familiaris) Comprehension of Human Communicative Signals
TL;DR: It is found that even primitive breeds with little human contact were able to use communicative cues, and “working” dogs were more skilled at using gestural cues than were non-working breeds, regardless of whether the working breeds were more or less genetically wolf-like.
Is Military Incompetence Adaptive
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose two mechanisms by which positive illusions tend to promote victory in both raids and battles: performance enhancement hypothesis and opponent-deception hypothesis, and suggest that positive illusions increase the probability of a successful bluff.
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