300,000 years ago, humans made a giant leap: “Language changed us from being a typical, brutal kind of primate into a relatively civilized human being.”
Click above to listen to part 4 of Gained in Translation, featuring Richard Wrangham, Biological anthropologist at Harvard University and author of “The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution.”
Gained in Translation:
Part 1: Julia Rayz / A.I. Comedy
Part 2: Steve Adler / Moon Cheese
Part 3: Doug Vakoch / Messaging E.T.
Part 4: Richard Wrangham / We Domesticated Apes
