Interview with anthropologist Richard Wrangham on the emergence of homo sapiens

DER SPIEGEL: Is this deliberate, planneding form of aggression a peculiarity of humans? Wrangham: We humans exhibit a number of biological characteristics that are more typical of pets than of wild animals, including a very low rate of face-to-face aggression. It is noticeable, for example, that many of the domestication traits are typical for young animals …

DER SPIEGEL: … in other words, dogs resemble wolf pups, just as we resemble Neanderthals who never reached adulthood?

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