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The Evolutionary Story of Human Aggression with Richard Wrangham.
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Anthropologist and Primatologist, Richard Wrangham, explains how humans selectively bred ourselves to become less aggressive and how our capacity for violence informed the evolution of morality and our sense of right and wrong.
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