# Richard Wrangham **Domain:** Anthropology of aggression **Doc Type:** Developed Person Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition **Richard Wrangham** is a biological anthropologist and primatologist whose work distinguishes reactive from proactive aggression and develops a hypothesis of human self-domestication. He argues that selection against impulsive dominance aggression could coexist with unusually strong human capacities for planned coalitionary violence. ## Significance Wrangham supplies the mechanism joining the collection's two anthropological claims: lower everyday reactive aggression need not mean lower capacity for organized killing. His execution hypothesis remains a scientific hypothesis, not an established single-cause history of human evolution. ## Sources - Richard Wrangham, [Human domestication and the roles of human agency](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7250791/) - Richard Wrangham, *The Goodness Paradox* (2019) ## Routes [[wiki/Human Self-Domestication|Human Self-Domestication]] · [[wiki/Execution Hypothesis|Execution Hypothesis]] · [[wiki/Reactive vs. Proactive Aggression|Reactive vs. Proactive Aggression]]