Why there are no more alpha males | Richard Wrangham | The goodness paradox
Richard Wrangham explains how humans domesticated themselves.
Why is there such a low prevalence of reactive aggression among humans?
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Humans are a paradox. Full of the finest ideals and not infrequently the most vicious of actions. Join Harvard primatologist, Richard Wrangham, to explore how humans evolved to be good and evil at the same time, why it matters, and what we can do about it.
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Richard Wrangham is Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and one of the most influential anthropologists in the world.
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00:00 Introduction
00:10 Domestication of foxes
02:17 Self-domestication syndrome
03:58 Hockey players with wide faces
05:40 Homo sapiens are domesticated
08:00 Origin of Homo Sapiens
09:00 Alpha males
09:52 We have no alpha males
11:12 Execution of alphas
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