Peaceable Bonobos, Violent Chimpanzees, and The Evolution of Human Behavior
When: Tue., Aug. 27, 7-8:30 p.m. 2019
Featured Speaker: Richard Wrangham, Ph.D., Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; founder and Senior Researcher, the Kibale Chimpanzee Project; author, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution. Dr. Wrangham, a primate behavioral ecologist, has studied wild chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, since 1987. He is the recipient of a 1987 MacArthur Foundation fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy.