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Professor of Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham signed bananas and books last night at a reception promoting his latest book, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence...
...generally kept, and transgressors are quickly punished. The reason for such order is simple: among bonobos it is the females that enforce the laws. The strategies used in the bonobo world might work in our own, according to Demonic Males (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95), a new book by anthropologist Richard Wrangham and science writer Dale Peterson...
...Among chimpanzees," Wrangham explains, "every female of whatever rank is subordinate to every male of whatever rank. Among bonobos males dominate only the females that rank lower than them, and females just as easily dominate lower-ranking males...
Also inducted were Professor of Statistics Donald B. Ruben, Alfred Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity Thomas M. Scanlon Jr., Stanton Professor of the First Amendment Frederick Schauer, Lane Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics Gisela Striker, and Professor of Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham...
Drug companies are currently looking into possible uses of the plants, but widespread acceptance is at least a decade away, Wrangham said last week. Researchers are investigating one of the compounds as a pesticide against nematodes...