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Richard Wrangham, Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University, founder of Kibale Chimpanzee Project, and Co-founder of the Kasiisi Project.
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Richard Wrangham was born 1948 in Britain and earned his PhD at Cambridge University in 1975 and is a Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. Dr. Wrangham researches primate ecology and human nutrition and social behaviors. He has authored or co-authored many books such as Science and Conservation in African Forests: The Benefits of Longterm Research, Demonic Males: apes and the Origins of Human Violence, and Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Dr. Wrangham is a board member, co-founder, and co-director of the Kasiisi Project. Dr. Wrangham is also the founder of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project.
Kasiisi Project and Kibale Chimpanzee Project
The Kasiisi Project, located in Uganda, was founded in 1997 in order to aid in educating in tangent with the Kibale...
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Randazzo, G. (2018). Richard Wrangham. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2073-1
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