Books written by Richard W. Wrangham

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

In How to Do the Raw Food Diet with Joy for Awesome Health and Success, the author, Christopher Westra, wrote: “In my own experience, starting on living foods brought about a change in sexuality that was dramatic and completely ...
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Translated by H. Briffault . Baltimore , Md .: Johns Hopkins University Press . Law , Robin . 1993. " The ' Amazons ' of Dahomey . " Paideuma 39 : 246– 260 . Leacock , Eleanor . 1993. " Women in Samoan History : A Further Critique of ...
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking.
Primate Societies

The langurs of Abu, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. . 1978. Allomaternal care and abuse of infants among Hanuman langurs. In Recent advances in primatology, vol. 1, ed. D. J. Chivers and P. Herbert, New York: Academic PreSS. 1979.
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

The Goodness Paradox gives a new and powerful argument for how and why this uncanny combination of peacefulness and violence crystallized after our ancestors acquired language in Africa a quarter of a million years ago.
Chimpanzee Cultures

While demonstrating that both nature and culture play important roles in the behavior of the Pan species, this book affords often astonishing insights into the workings of the individual chimpanzee mind and of chimpanzee and bonobo social ...
Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females

The book presents extensive field research and analysis to evaluate sexual coercion in a range of species - including all of the great apes and humans - and to clarify its role in shaping social relationships among males, among females, and ...
Chimpanzees and Human Evolution

This volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain human uniqueness, by studying our closest living relatives.
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

This study is an analysis of the roots of human savagery, dealing with the fundamental questions of why the majority of violence is perpetrated by men, whether this is a matter of nature or nurture and whether anything can be done about it.
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Demonic Males offers startling new answers...