Wrangham argues the key was tribal groups using language to conspire to safely execute bullies, psychopaths, and tyrants.
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Male humans get into fights about 1/1000th as often as male chimps, and we've been self-domesticating for lower aggression for about 300,000 years -- Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham in talk today at @UNM.
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In other words, capital punishment was crucial in human evolution.
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Is Wrangham arguing ‘self-domestication’ via biological evolution or cultural? (I.e. is he arguing for genetic selection for less aggression? Or just anti-aggression social norms, but no corresponding genetic changes?)
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Genetic changes.
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We act like bonobos. But we have sexually dimorphic bodies & endocrine systems of common chimps. State suppression of violence is artificial/unstable & will likely lead to delayed outbursts of violence. Self organized criticality is beneath the biologyhttp://Sanctionthebook.com
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Most potential violence can be suppressed though, without the threat of the entire judicial system I know I would of kicked the living Shit out of the airline employee who smiled in my face as he told me I couldn’t make my plane after two gate changes because I was 1 minute late
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He's been on the podcast tour lately pitching his Goodness Paradox.
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Fascinating interview with Richard Wrangham on
@CBCQuirks! Why don't humans have "alpha males," the way other primate species do? Because -- thanks to language -- we (i.e. our ancestors) could gang up on (& kill) the would-be dominant males. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/the-goodness-paradox-why-humans-are-so-good-and-so-bad-1.5037033 …#evolution - 1 more reply
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Fascinating interview with Richard Wrangham on
@CBCQuirks! Why don't humans have "alpha males," the way other primate species do? Because -- thanks to language -- we (i.e. our ancestors) could gang up on (& kill) the would-be dominant males. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/the-goodness-paradox-why-humans-are-so-good-and-so-bad-1.5037033 …#evolution -
Another that's quite goodhttps://think.kera.org/2019/02/12/the-evolution-of-human-violence/ …
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