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...Based on research in ‘Demonic Males,’ I will discuss why men like to fight, what makes human violence special compared to other primates, and why we are wired to relish tales of aggression,” said Wrangham. “‘Fight Club’ is a classic movie, and my talk may give [audiences] new perspectives...
...first rule of Fight Club is you don’t talk about Fight Club. But that’s not stopping Professor Richard Wrangham. The biological anthropology professor and co-author of “Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence,” will be appearing at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on February 8th to discuss the 1999 David Fincher film as part of the theater’s ongoing series, “Science on Screen...
This month’s feature is the film “Fight Club,” based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The topics addressed by Professor Wrangham in his talk will be the reasons behind male aggression, violence, and fighting—all of which are vividly portrayed in the film...
...Chillingly,” says Wrangham in an email, “‘Fight Club’ treats violence as fun, whether one-on-one conflicts or war-like gang attacks.” Violence, and the motivation underlying it, has been a large part of Professor Wrangham’s research over the past twenty years at Harvard University. “Wrangham has spent years studying chimpanzee cultures in the wild and comparing those cultures to human ones,” explains Taylor-Mead...
...heartland by providing a tax credit for each net hire by a small business. That, in addition to good labor incentivization practices, innovative ideas by talented workers, and moderate compensation packages for top executives and employees, promise to be the remedies for this ill economy. Unless middle-class Americans fight back against the excesses of Wall Street executives who make more in a day than some of their employees make in a year (for much harder work), they will continue to be exploited by irresponsible financial practices...