Epstein Secrets

ds much of his time sifting through the blood of wild ani- mals. "When I see a monkey like that dragge

a perfectly interest- ing thesis, Wolfe recalled, "but to have an impact you are going to have to understand the underlying infectious diseases." Wrangham told Wolfe that he needed to become an expert in vi- ruses and parasites. Soon, Wolfe says, "I got completely hooked on viruses. It is an area of

ichard Wrangham and the noted neuroscientist Marc Hauser. Wolfe intended to continue his a- ploration of the primate medicinal ar- mamentarium, but Wrangham wasn't encouraging. "He said that learning how chimpanzees medicate them- selves would make a perfectly interest- ing thesis, Wolfe recalled, "but

ding. But like the frontier of the early American wild west, nature holds many secrets and surprises. So

Early canid domestication: the farm-fox experiment. American Scientist, 87, 160-169; Hare, B., Plyusnina, I, Ignacio, N., Schepina, O., Stepika, A., Wrangham, R. W., & Trut, L. N. (2005). Social cognitive evolution in captive foxes is a correlated by-product of experimental domestication. Current Biology,

ective advantage for the winners. The suite of behaviors that accompany coalitionary killing in chimpanzees has led several scientists, most notably Wrangham, to argue that this form of lethal aggression in chimpanzees is an adaptation, with deep parallels to human warfare. On this view, we inherited the u

s controllable as property; others will seem like wild animals and thus dangerous, dirty and deserving o

. B. (2002). Religious delusions in patients admitted to hospital with schizophrenia. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 37(3), 130-138; Wrangham, R.W. (1999). Is military incompetence adaptive? Evolution and Human Behavior, 20, 3-17; Zhu, F., Yan, C.-X., Wang, Q., Zhu, Y.-S., Zhao, Y., Huang,