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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a classic film by Stanley Kubrick set in the distant future of 2001, when humankind finally evolves into spacefaring starbabies with no help from the AI they designed to help them. But the first act is set at the dawn of humanity, which means we get to review it on our prehistoric podcast! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Watch the 2001: A Space Odyssey dubstep remix: https://vimeo.com/98811524 Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic_Males Darren Naish on tapir attacks https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tapir-attacks-past-present-but-hopefully-not-future/ The earliest evidence of stone tool use: https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/150520stonetools/ Chimpanzees hunt with spears: https://phys.org/news/2015-04-chimps-senegal-fashion-spears.html The Savannah Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_hypothesis The earliest bipedal hominins: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02226-5 The Turing Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test Eliza Chatbot: https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt Lunar regolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil Space grip shoes: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/magnetic-space-grip-shoe/overview/ Walking is really just falling and catching yourself: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/walking-really-is-just-falling-and-catching-yourself

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a classic film by Stanley Kubrick set in the distant future of 2001, when humankind finally evolves into spacefaring starbabies with no help from the AI they designed to help them. But the first act is set at the dawn of humanity, which means we get to review it on our prehistoric podcast!Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode:Watch the 2001: A Space Odyssey dubstep remix: https://vimeo.com/98811524 Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic_Males Darren Naish on tapir attacks https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tapir-attacks-past-present-but-hopefully-not-future/ The earliest evidence of stone tool use: https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/150520stonetools/ Chimpanzees hunt with spears: https://phys.org/news/2015-04-chimps-senegal-fashion-spears.html The Savannah Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_hypothesis The earliest bipedal hominins: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02226-5 The Turing Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test Eliza Chatbot: https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt Lunar regolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soilSpace grip shoes: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/magnetic-space-grip-shoe/overview/ Walking is really just falling and catching yourself: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/walking-really-is-just-falling-and-catching-yourself

What makes a man? My guest, Harvard evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven, has a one-word answer: testosterone. She is the author of the new book T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. Carole describes her own difficult educational journey, her own suffering as a result of male behavior; how an obsession with human behavior led her to the a chimpanzee colony in the jungles of Uganda; and ultimately to a focus on testosterone in explaining not only physical but psychological differences between men and women, especially in terms of aggression, sex drive and status-seeking. Carole talks about how the debate over sex differences has become over-politicized, leading to bad science. As you'll hear, one of my takeaways from Hooven's reality-based approach is that it makes culture even more important, not less. We end with a discussion about the importance of not pathologizing the male desire for sex. This episode gets quite personal at times, which seems appropriate given the subject.    Carole Hooven   Carole Hooven teaches in and co-directs the undergraduate program in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She earned her BA in psychology from Antioch College in 1988 and her PhD at Harvard in 2004, researching sex differences and testosterone, and has taught there ever since. She has received numerous teaching awards, and her Hormones and Behavior class was named one of the Harvard Crimson's "top ten tried and true." Carole lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband Alex, son Griffin and cat Lola. She loves watching birds, running and biking, Belgian beer, salty snacks and freedom of speech. She tweets from @hoovlet and has a website: http://www.carolehooven.com.  More Hooven Read her new and informative book, T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us She also recently wrote an interesting article for The Telegraph, The real reason men are more likely to cheat? Science has the answers, as well as a piece for Stylist Magazine: How understanding testosterone will help you understand yourself (and everyone around you) better Also mentioned  We mentioned the book, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, co-authored by Richard Wrangham I referred a 1998 piece by Francis Fukuyama titled Women and the Evolution of World Politics Learn more about the Guevedoces in the Dominican Republic who are born with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency syndrome.  Check out Carole's recent appearance on Andrew Sullivan's podcast I mentioned Melvin Konner's book, Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy I quoted Margret Mead who once said: “I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.” Last year, Jeffrey Toobin was suspended for masturbating on a Zoom video chat.  In the movie City Slickers, Billy Crystal's character says: “Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.” (I wrongly attributed the quote to Seinfeld) I referenced research from Pew that shows that “masculine” is seen as a negative trait for both men and women.  In an earlier article, I quoted the Stowe headmaster J. F. Roxburgh who said: I am trying to produce men who are “acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck.”  Learn more about the Carnegie medals awarded to those who exemplify physical bravery.  The Dialogues Team Creator & Host: Richard Reeves Research: Ashleigh Maciolek Artwork: George Vaughan Thomas Tech Support: Cameron Hauver-Reeves Music: "Remember" by Bencoolen (thanks for the permission, guys!)

We Homo sapiens can be the nicest of species and also the nastiest. What occurred during human evolution to account for this paradox? What are the two kinds of aggression that primates are prone to, and why did each evolve separately? How does the intensity of violence among humans compare with the aggressive behavior of other primates? How did humans domesticate themselves? And how were the acquisition of language and the practice of capital punishment determining factors in the rise of culture and civilization? Authoritative, provocative, and engaging, The Goodness Paradox offers a startlingly original theory of how, in the last 250 million years, humankind became an increasingly peaceful species in daily interactions even as its capacity for coolly planned and devastating violence remains undiminished. In tracing the evolutionary histories of reactive and proactive aggression, biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham forcefully and persuasively argues for the necessity of social tolerance and the control of savage divisiveness still haunting us today. Dr. Richard Wrangham is Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University. He is the author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human and Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. He has studied wild chimpanzees in Uganda since 1987 and received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of the British Academy. Dr. Wrangham and Dr. Shermer discuss: the paradox of Homo sapiens the two types of aggression: proactive and reactive the evolutionary origins of aggression and the logic behind it the neural pathways of aggression how species can be both artificially and self-domesticated the tyrant/bully problem and how our ancestors solved it war and human nature. Listen to Science Salon via iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Soundcloud. This Science Salon was recorded on March 5, 2019. You play a vital part in our commitment to promote science and reason. If you enjoy the Science Salon Podcast, please show your support by making a donation, or by becoming a patron.  

On this week's episode of I, Dave speaks with Richard Wrangham, a British primatologist. Wrangham is co-director of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, the long-term study of the Kanyawara chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda. He is known predominantly for his work in the ecology of primate social systems, the evolutionary history of human aggression (culminating in his book with Dale Peterson, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence), and most recently his research in cooking (summarized in his book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human) and self-domestication. Wrangham's latest work focuses on the role cooking has played in human evolution. He has argued that cooking food is obligatory for humans as a result of biological adaptations and that cooking, in particular the consumption of cooked tubers, might explain the increase in hominid brain sizes, smaller teeth and jaws, and decrease in sexual dimorphism that occurred roughly 1.8 million years ago.

Why are men (generally) more violent then women? Why are men (generally) drawn to competition? Is the idea that masculinity means having courage and strength just a complete cultural construct or is their a biological underpinning to it? Well, our guest today makes the case that we can look to our closest animal relatives, the great apes, to find answers to these questions. His name is Dr. Richard Wrangham and he is a professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University. He's the co-author of the book, Demonic Males: Apes and Origins of Human Violence. In today's podcast, Dr. Wrangham and I look at what we can learn about human masculinity from chimpanzees and other apes. We discuss the biological underpinnings of masculinity as well as patriarchy and what insights we can gleam from that. It's a super fascinating show.

This is a show about evolution—but not, for once, about the evolution wars. Instead, it concerns one of the most intriguing ideas to emerge in quite some time about the evolution of humans. In his much discussed book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that we’ve been ignoring a critical catalyst in the creation of our species—a little technology called cooking. Cooking was the game changer, says Wrangham. It upended everything. It altered how we obtained energy, which in turn morphed our anatomy and cranial capacity. Cooking even changed how we came to spend our days, and divide labor between the sexes. According to Wrangham, learning to cook therefore ranks among the most important things that ever happened to our ancestors. In this episode of Point of Inquiry, he discusses why cooking was so pivotal—and why its role has so long been overlooked. Richard Wrangham is the Ruth Moore professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, and the author, with Dale Peterson, of Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. His new book is Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human.