# Humans Are Both Cooperative and Destructive by Richard Wrangham > “We're amazingly more cooperative than almost any other species and we're extraordinarily destructive compared to most species.” > **— Richard Wrangham**, *Big Think interview* ## Sources and Context - **Original interview transcript:** [“Big Think Interview With Richard Wrangham”](https://bigthink.com/videos/big-think-interview-with-richard-wrangham/). Wrangham presents cooperation and violence together as unusually strong human capacities. Later in the interview he says a predisposition toward violence operates in particular contexts, rejects war as a necessary feature of human life, and discusses institutional prevention. The candidate HA-006 isolated the destructive half of this sentence; this Reminder keeps the full contrast. The statement is his comparative interpretation, not a universal violence rate assigned to every person. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] - **Article:** [[articles/Walking the Beautiful Path Through the Greatest Transformation in Human History|Walking the Beautiful Path Through the Greatest Transformation in Human History]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Human Animality|Human Animality]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Richard Wrangham|Richard Wrangham]] - [[wiki/Human Animality|Human Animality]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “We're amazingly more cooperative than almost any other species and we're extraordinarily destructive compared to most species.” — Richard Wrangham, Big Think interview https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-wrangham-cooperative-destructive ```