Richard Wrangham Research Articles

The Cooking Ape: An Interview with Richard Wrangham

Humans: The Cooking Ape Perhaps the first to suggest that humans were cooking as early as 1.9 million years ago, Richard Wrangham shows through his new research and his imagination how and possibly when cooking changed humans dramatically. Wrangham, Harvard University primatologist and MacArthur Fellow, has been studying the evolution of human cooking. After 25 years of primate research at his site in Kibale, Uganda, Wrangham is best known for explaining the similarity and differences across species of primate social organizations. In Kibale, he has analyzed chimpanzees’ behavior: how it’s changed when they interact with the environment and how their social groups have evolved. In particular, he noticed how food changed their interactions with each other. Like that of chimps, human behavior has been affected by food, especially as they shifted from raw to cooked food. Moving from eating food as it was discovered to collecting edibles and cooking them altered our social relationships. Cooked food has changed Homo sapiens physically by making food more digestible thereby altering jaws, teeth, and guts, and providing more calories for more expensive organs such as the brain. Wrangham discusses when and how humans may have started using fire to cook food, what they cooked, and the transition from cooking in an outdoor fire to hearths and open ovens.

Kinship and behavior in primates

Contributors 1: Bernard Chapais and Carol M. Berman: Introduction: The Kinship Black Box Part I. Who Are Kin? Methodological Advances in Determining Kin Relationships 2: Philip A. Morin and Tony L. Goldberg: Determination of Genealogical Relationships from Genetic Data: A review of Methods and Applications 3: David S. Woodruff: Noninvasive Genotyping and Field Studies of Free-Ranging Nonhuman Primates Part II. Kin Compositions: Ecological Determinants, Population Genetics, and Demography 4: Lynne A. Isbell: Is There No Place Like Home? Ecological Bases of Female Dispersal and Philopatry and Their Consequences for the Formation of Kin Groups 5: Guy A. Hoelzer, Juan Carlos Morales, and Don J. Melnick: Dispersal and the Population Genetics of Primate Species 6: David A. Hill: The Effects of Demographic Variation on Kinship Structure and Behavior in Cercopithecines Part III. Diversity of Effects of Kinship on Behavior 7: Ellen Kapsalis: Matrilineal Kinship and Primate Behavior 8: Karen B. Strier: Patrilineal Kinship and Primate Behavior 9: Leanne T. Nash: Kinship and Behavior Among Nongregarious Nocturnal Prosimians: What Do We Really Know? 10: James Dietz: Kinship Structure and Reproductive Skew in Cooperatively Breeding Primates 11: Fernando Colmenares: Kinship Structure and Its Impact on Behavior in Multilevel Societies 12: Andreas Paul and Jutta Kuester: The Impact of Kinship on Mating and Reproduction Part IV. Kin Bias: Proximate and Functional Processes 13: Drew Rendall: Recognizing Kin: Mechanisms, Media, Minds, Modules, and Muddles 14: Carol M. Berman: Developmental Aspects of Kin Bias in Behavior 15: Dorthy L. Cheyney and Robert M. Seyfarth: The Recognition of Other Individuals' Kinship Relationships 16: Bernard Chapais and Patrick Belisle: Constraints on Kin Selection in Primate Groups Part IV. The Evolutionary Origins of Human Kinship 17: Lars Rodseth and Richard Wrangham: Human Kinship: A Continuation of Politics by Other Means? 18 Residence Groups Among Hunter-Gatherers: A View of the Claims and Evidence for Patrilocal Bands: Helen Perich Alvarez: 19 Mating, Parenting, and the Evolution of Human Pair Bonds: Kristen Hawkes: Conclusion 20 Variation in Nepotistic Regimes and Kin Recognition: A Major Area for Future Research: Bernard Chapais and Carol M. Berman: Species Index Subject Index

The Problem with Boys: Bridewealth Accumulation, Sibling Gender, and the Propensity to Participate in Cattle Raiding among the Kuria of Tanzania

Previous articleNext article No AccessReportsThe Problem with Boys: Bridewealth Accumulation, Sibling Gender, and the Propensity to Participate in Cattle Raiding among the Kuria of TanzaniaMichaelL.Fleisher and GarthJ.HollowayMichaelL.FleisherEthiopian Landmine Impact Survey, P.O. Box 26407, Code 1000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ([email protected])/Department of Agriculture and Food Economics, School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development, University of Reading, P.O. Box 237, Reading RG6 6AR, U.K. ([email protected]). 30 xi 03 Search for more articles by this author and GarthJ.HollowayEthiopian Landmine Impact Survey, P.O. Box 26407, Code 1000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ([email protected])/Department of Agriculture and Food Economics, School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development, University of Reading, P.O. Box 237, Reading RG6 6AR, U.K. ([email protected]). 30 xi 03 Search for more articles by this author Ethiopian Landmine Impact Survey, P.O. Box 26407, Code 1000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ([email protected])/Department of Agriculture and Food Economics, School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development, University of Reading, P.O. Box 237, Reading RG6 6AR, U.K. ([email protected]). 30 xi 03PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 45, Number 2April 2004 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/382257 Views: 65Total views on this site Citations: 9Citations are reported from Crossref 2004 by The WennerGren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Luke Glowacki, Rose McDermott Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 377, no.18511851 (Apr 2022).https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0141Luke Glowacki The emergence of locally adaptive institutions: Insights from traditional social structures of East African pastoralists, Biosystems 198 (Dec 2020): 104257.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104257Elizabeth Stites, Kimberly Howe From the border to the bedroom: changing conflict dynamics in Karamoja, Uganda, The Journal of Modern African Studies 57, no.11 (Mar 2019): 137–159.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X18000642Jeremy Lind Devolution, shifting centre-periphery relationships and conflict in northern Kenya, Political Geography 63 (Mar 2018): 135–147.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.06.004Ben Raffield, Neil Price, Mark Collard Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 13 (Jan 2017): 165–209.https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.5.114355Luke Glowacki, Richard Wrangham Warfare and reproductive success in a tribal population, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no.22 (Dec 2014): 348–353.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1412287112Jennifer Bond Conflict, Development and Security at the Agro–Pastoral–Wildlife Nexus: A Case of Laikipia County, Kenya, The Journal of Development Studies 50, no.77 (Apr 2014): 991–1008.https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.909025Luke Glowacki, Richard W. Wrangham The Role of Rewards in Motivating Participation in Simple Warfare, Human Nature 24, no.44 (Sep 2013): 444–460.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9178-8Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson The puzzle of monogamous marriage, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367, no.15891589 (Mar 2012): 657–669.https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0290

Drawing the line: science and the case for animal rights

A scientific and legal exploration into the big question in rights law today: Where do we draw the line?. }One of those rare books that can change the reader's view of our position in the world and within the animal kingdom, Unlocking the Cage is a landmark both in its scientific insight and in its challenge to the law. As Steven Wise continues his exploration of animal cognition along the evolutionary spectrum--from apes to dolphins, parrots, elephants, dogs, and even honeybees--he finds astonishing answers to the big question in animal rights today: Where do we draw the line? The law has firm criteria for personhood and Wise shows how certain non-human animals meet those criteria.Readers will be enthralled as they follow Wise's firsthand investigations of the work of the world's most famous animal experts: in Kenya with Cynthia Moss and the touchingly affectionate elephant families of Amboseli, in the mountains of Uganda with Richard Wrangham and the chimpanzees of the Kibale Forest, at MIT with Irene Pepperberg and her amazing and witty gray parrot, Alex, and in the California sanctuary where Penny Paterson has spent two decades learning about the skills and vivid personality of Koko the gorilla. In many cases, Wise was even able to sustain an extended conversation with these extraordinary creatures. Steven Wise is the world's foremost expert on the legal rights of animals and has devoted his life to litigating, writing, and working on their behalf. No one with a shred of curiosity about animals, about rights, or about justice will want to miss this book.A Merloyd Lawrence Book }

Women and the Evolution of World Politics

In the worlds largest captive chimp colony at the Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands, a struggle worthy of Machiavelli unfolded during the late 1970s. As described by primatologist Frans de Waal, the aging alpha male of the colony, Yeroen, was gradually unseated from his position of power by a younger male, Luit. Luit could not have done this on the basis of his own physical strength, but had to enter into an alliance with Nikkie, a still younger male. No sooner was Luit on top, however, than Nikkie turned on him and formed a coalition with the deposed leader to achieve dominance himself. Luit remained in the background as a threat to his rule, so one day he was murdered by Nikkie and Yeroen, his toes and testicles littering the floor of the cage. Jane Goodall became famous studying a group of about 30 chimps at the Gombe National Park in Tanzania in the 1960s, a group she found on the whole to be peaceful. In the 1970s, this group broke up into what could only be described as two rival gangs in the northern and southern parts of the range. The biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham with Dale Peterson in their 1996 book Demonic Males describes what happened next. Parties of four or five males from the northern group would go out, not simply defending their range, but often penetrating into the rival group's territory to pick off individuals caught alone or unprepared. The murders were often grisly, and they were celebrated by the attackers with hooting and

Family Values

Book reviewed in this article:Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape by Frans de WaalGood Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals by Frans de WaalDemonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson

Book Review Demonic Males: Apes and the origins of human violence By Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. 350 pp. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1996. $24.95. 0-395-69001-3

Book Review Demonic Males: Apes and the origins of human violence By Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. 350 pp. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1996. $24.95. 0-395-69001-3

Female Primate Sexual Behavior and Conception: Are There Really Sperm to Spare? [and Comments and Reply

Female Primate Sexual Behavior and Conception: Are There Really Sperm to Spare? [and Comments and Reply

Chimpanzees, Tools, and Termites: Another Example From Tanzania

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Gorilla-Eaters of Gabon

‘Gorillas destroy our crops and they are vicious animals’, the authors were told last December in Gabon, where, along with Professor Roger Short and Dr Richard Wrangham, they were investigating the status of gorillas and chimpanzees. Gorillas can be shot on sight, and both animals are killed for meat. Gabon people are predominantly rural, and because they are so dependent on the forests for food, it may be that the Government will preserve these, and with them the wildlife, despite impending large-scale development.

Some Notes on Law and Change in North India

The complexity of the situation in an Indian village as regards law and the process of settling disputes can be only briefly catalogued in this paper. To start, let me briefly summarize the social system of a particular region in India. Senapur is a large, multicaste village in Jaunpur District of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, 1 and my remarks, unless otherwise specified, relate to Senapur and the immediately surrounding locality, which is called Dobhi Taluka or Tuppah. Dobhi Taluka is an area of forty square miles with roughly one hundred

Function

Previous articleNext article No AccessOther Considerations of TheoryFunctionRaymond FirthRaymond Firth Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 1955 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/yearanth.0.3031149 Views: 5Total views on this site Citations: 5Citations are reported from Crossref Journal History This article was published in the Yearbook of Anthropology (1955), which is continued by Current Anthropology (1959-present). PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Manvir Singh, Richard Wrangham, Luke Glowacki Self-Interest and the Design of Rules, Human Nature 28, no.44 (Aug 2017): 457–480.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-017-9298-7Peter A. Munch The Concept of 'Function' and Functional Analysis in Sociology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 6, no.33 (Aug 2016): 193–213.https://doi.org/10.1177/004839317600600301Satish Saberwal Regions and Their Social Structures, Contributions to Indian Sociology 5, no.11 (Jul 2016): 82–98.https://doi.org/10.1177/006996677100500112Niklas Luhmann Funktion und Kausalität, (Jan 1970): 9–30.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-96984-2_1 June Helm The Ecological Approach in Anthropology, American Journal of Sociology 67, no.66 (Oct 2015): 630–639.https://doi.org/10.1086/223227