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Richard Wrangham (born Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom; 1948–) is a British primatologist and evolutionary anthropologist. He is an internationally renowned expert on wild chimpanzees who has made significant theoretical and empirical contributions across a wide range of topics related to primate socioecology and human behavioral evolution. Wrangham has authored over 250 scientific articles and has written 3 books and co-edited 7 others. He married Dr. Elizabeth Ross in 1980 and has three adult sons.
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Hare, B., Wobber, V., & Wrangham, R. W. (2012). The self-domestication hypothesis: Evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression. Animal Behaviour, 83, 573–585.
Muller, M. N., & Wrangham, R. W. (Eds.). (2009). Sexual coercion in Primates: An evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Muller, M. N., Wrangham, R. W., & Pilbeam, D. R. (Eds.). (2017). Chimpanzees and human evolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Rodriguez, E., & Wrangham, R. W. (1993). Zoopharmacognosy: The use of medicinal plants by animals. In K. R. Downum (Ed.), Phytochemical potential of tropical plants (pp. 89–105). New York: Plenum Press.
Rubenstein, D. I., & Wrangham, R. W. (1986). Ecological aspects of social evolution: Birds and mammals. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Smuts, B. B., Cheney, D. L., Seyfarth, R. M., Wrangham, R. W., & Struhsaker, T. T. (1987). Primate societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wrangham, R.W. (1975). The behavioural ecology of chimpanzees. PhD Dissertation. Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge.
Wrangham, R. W. (1980). An ecological model of female-bonded primate groups. Behaviour, 75(3/4), 262–300.
Wrangham, R. W. (2009). Catching fire: How cooking made us human. New York: Basic Books.
Wrangham, R. W., & Peterson, D. (1996). Demonic males: Apes and the origins of human violence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Wrangham, R. W., & Pilbeam, D. R. (2000). African apes as time machines. In B. M. F. Galdikas, N. E. Briggs, L. K. Sheeran, G. L. Shapiro, & J. Goodall (Eds.), All apes great and small. Volume one: African apes (pp. 5–17). New York: Springer.
Wrangham, R. W., & Ross, E. (Eds.). (2008). Science and conservation in African forests: The benefits of long-term research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Wrangham, R. W., McGrew, W. C., de Waal, F. B. M., & Heltne, P. G. (1994). Chimpanzee cultures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Wrangham, R. W., Jones, J. H., Laden, G., Pilbeam, D., & Conklin-Brittain, N. (2000). The raw and the stolen: Cooking and the ecology of human origins. Current Anthropology, 40(5), 567–594.
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Thompson, M.E. (2018). Richard Wrangham. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_947-1
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