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List of works by Richard W. Wrangham

'Impact hunters' catalyse cooperative hunting in two wild chimpanzee communities

scientific article

A Direct Comparison of Scan and Focal Sampling Methods for Measuring Wild Chimpanzee Feeding Behaviour ⬇️

scientific article published on December 22, 2010

A Problem Shared Is a Problem Reduced: Seeking Efficiency in the Conservation of Felids and Primates ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

A quantitative comparison of terrestrial herbaceous food consumption by Pan paniscus in the Lomako Forest, Zaire, and Pan troglodytes in the Kibale Forest, Uganda

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

A view on the science: physical anthropology at the millennium

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

Acoustic analysis of wild chimpanzee pant hoots: Do Kibale Forest chimpanzees have an acoustically distinct food arrival pant hoot?

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Age Patterning in Wild Chimpanzee Gut Microbiota Diversity Reveals Differences from Humans in Early Life

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Age-related change in adult chimpanzee social network integration

Age-related reproductive effort in male chimpanzees: terminal investment or alternative tactics?

scientific article published in July 2024

Aging and fertility patterns in wild chimpanzees provide insights into the evolution of menopause

scientific article (publication date: 18 December 2007)

Amplification of a complete simian immunodeficiency virus genome from fecal RNA of a wild chimpanzee

scientific article

An Ecological Model of Female-Bonded Primate Groups

article

Apes in the Anthropocene: flexibility and survival

scientific article published on 09 March 2015

Application of the heterochrony framework to the study of behavior and cognition

scientific article

Applying wet sieving fecal particle size measurement to frugivores: A case study of the eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

Assessing the accuracy of interviewed recall for rare, highly seasonal events: the case of wildlife consumption in Madagascar

Associations between faecal chemical pollutants and hormones in primates inhabiting Kibale National Park, Uganda

scientific article published in 2023

Automated classification of starch granules using supervised pattern recognition of morphological properties

scholarly article by Julie Wilson et al published March 2010 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Bioactive properties of plant species ingested by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Kibale National Park, Uganda

scientific article published on January 2006

Bipedal locomotion as a feeding adaptation in gelada baboons, and its implications for hominid evolution

Bishop Wilberforce: Natural Selection and the Descent of Man

scientific article published in Nature

Bonobos exhibit delayed development of social behavior and cognition relative to chimpanzees

scientific article

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

book by Richard Wrangham

Chimpanzee Predation and the Ecology of Microbial Exchange

scientific article published in 2000

Chimpanzees: the culture-zone concept becomes untidy

scientific article published in August 2006

Citizen Science as a New Tool in Dog Cognition Research

scientific article

Climbing and the daily energy cost of locomotion in wild chimpanzees: implications for hominoid locomotor evolution

scientific article

Coincident tick infestations in the nostrils of wild chimpanzees and a human in Uganda

scientific article (publication date: November 2013)

Collective violence: comparisons between youths and chimpanzees

scientific article

Community-specific evaluation of tool affordances in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published on 3 November 2011

Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans

scientific article published on 20 August 2005

Comparisons of Limb Structural Properties in Free-ranging Chimpanzees from Kibale, Gombe, Mahale, and Taï Communities

article published in 2010

Competition Elicits more Physical Affiliation between Male than Female Friends.

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

Confronting ethical challenges in long-term research programs in the tropics

scientific article published in March 2021

Constraints on group size in primates and carnivores: population density and day-range as assays of exploitation competition

article

Cooking and grinding reduces the cost of meat digestion

scientific article

Cooking and the human commitment to a high-quality diet

scientific article published on 20 October 2009

Cooking increases net energy gain from a lipid-rich food

scientific article

Correction: do young children understand relative value comparisons?

scientific article published on 15 May 2015

Crab-fishing by chimpanzees in the Nimba Mountains, Guinea

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Cross-Cultural Sex Differences in Post-Conflict Affiliation following Sports Matches

scientific article published on 3 August 2016

Cultures in chimpanzees

scientific article (publication date: 17 June 1999)

Defining subgroup size in fission-fusion societies

scientific article published on January 1993

Demography, life-history trade-offs, and the gastrointestinal virome of wild chimpanzees

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Demonic Males

1996 book by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson

Dental eruption in East African wild chimpanzees

scientific article

Diet and reproductive function in wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Kibale National Park, Uganda

scientific article published on February 2008

Differences in the early cognitive development of children and great apes ⬇️

scientific article published on June 14, 2013

Different ontogenetic patterns of testosterone production reflect divergent male reproductive strategies in chimpanzees and bonobos ⬇️

scientific article published on March 21, 2013

Differential changes in steroid hormones before competition in bonobos and chimpanzees

scientific article

Distribution of a Chimpanzee Social Custom Is Explained by Matrilineal Relationship Rather Than Conformity

scientific article

Do young children understand relative value comparisons?

scientific article

Does learning affect the structure of vocalizations in chimpanzees?

scientific article published in October 1999

Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates

scientific article

Dominance, aggression and testosterone in wild chimpanzees: a test of the ‘challenge hypothesis’

article published in 2004

Dominance, cortisol and stress in wild chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii )

scholarly article by Martin N. Muller & Richard Wrangham published 1 February 2004 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Dynamics of social and energetic stress in wild female chimpanzees

scientific article published on 28 May 2010

Earliest fire in Africa: towards the convergence of archaeological evidence and the cooking hypothesis

article

Ecological constraints on group size: an analysis of spider monkey and chimpanzee subgroups

scientific article published in 1995

Economic profitability of social predation among wild chimpanzees: individual variation promotes cooperation

article published in 2008

Energetic consequences of thermal and nonthermal food processing ⬇️

scientific article published on November 7, 2011

Evaluating the impact of physical frailty during ageing in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Evolution of coalitionary killing

scientific article published in January 1999

Faecal parasites increase with age but not reproductive effort in wild female chimpanzees

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Faster reproductive rates trade off against offspring growth in wild chimpanzees

scientific article

Feces are Effective Biological Samples for Measuring Pesticides and Flame Retardants in Primates

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Feeding Competition and Patch Size in the Chimpanzee Species Pan Paniscus and Pan Troglodytes

scientific article

Female reproduction and viral infection in a long‐lived mammal

scientific article published on 21 August 2022

First molar eruption, weaning, and life history in living wild chimpanzees

scientific article (publication date: 19 February 2013)

Foci of endemic simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild-living eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

scientific article

Formation of raiding parties for intergroup violence is mediated by social network structure

scientific article published on 10 October 2016

From Pan to pandemic

scientific article published in February 1999

Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution

scientific article (publication date: 25 September 2012)

Genetic Evidence of Human Adaptation to a Cooked Diet

scientific article

Genetic and 'cultural' similarity in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published on 18 August 2010

Genetic correlates of social behaviour in wild chimpanzees: evidence from mitochondrial DNA ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1997

Genetic differentiation and the evolution of cooperation in chimpanzees and humans

scientific article published on 19 January 2011

Great apes prefer cooked food

scientific article

Hardness of cercopithecine foods: implications for the critical function of enamel thickness in exploiting fallback foods.

scientific article published on December 2004

Hominid Dietary Selection Before Fire [and Comments and Reply]

scientific article published in April 1984

How chimpanzees integrate sensory information to select figs

scientific article

How old are chimpanzee communities? Time to the most recent common ancestor of the Y-chromosome in highly patrilocal societies

scientific article

Human adaptation to the control of fire

Human males appear more prepared than females to resolve conflicts with same-sex peers

scientific article

Human-like adrenal development in wild chimpanzees: A longitudinal study of urinary dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate and cortisol

scientific article published on 10 November 2019

Hypotheses for the Evolution of Reduced Reactive Aggression in the Context of Human Self-Domestication

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

INFLUENCE OF FRUIT AVAILABILITY ON MACRONUTRIENT AND ENERGY INTAKE BY FEMALE CHIMPANZEES

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Identification of a hepatitis B virus genome in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthi) from East Africa indicates a wide geographical dispersion among equatorial African primates

scientific article published on November 2002

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Indices of Habitat-wide Fruit Abundance in Tropical Forest

scientific article published on 04 May 2006

Intergroup Aggression in Chimpanzees and Humans [and Comments and Replies]

scientific article published in 1991

Intergroup Relations in Chimpanzees

Intergroup aggression in chimpanzees and war in nomadic hunter-gatherers: evaluating the chimpanzee model

scientific article

Intestinal parasites of the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes in Kibale Forest, Uganda

scientific article published on March 2000

Irven DeVore, 1934-2014.

scientific article published in May 2015

Is Military Incompetence Adaptive?

scholarly article by Richard Wrangham published January 1999 in Evolution and Human Behavior

Island rules cannot be broken

scientific article published in January 2008

Language likely promoted peace before 100,000 ya

scientific article published in January 2024

Lethal Respiratory Disease Associated with Human Rhinovirus C in Wild Chimpanzees, Uganda, 2013.

scientific article published in February 2018

Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts

scientific article

Letter to the editor: The role of shallow water habitats in human evolution: A response to Herries et al., 2010 critique of Wrangham et al., 2009 ⬇️

scientific article published on February 27, 2012

Male chimpanzees exchange political support for mating opportunities.

scientific article published in August 2007

Male chimpanzees prefer mating with old females

scientific article published on November 2006

Male coercion and the costs of promiscuous mating for female chimpanzees

scientific article published in April 2007

Male more than female infants imitate propulsive motion ⬇️

scientific article published on August 16, 2011

Males with a mother living in their group have higher paternity success in bonobos but not chimpanzees

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Males' greater tolerance of same-sex peers

scientific article published on 02 January 2009

Manipulation of food calls in captive chimpanzees. A preliminary report

scientific article published in January 1987

Manual laterality in anvil use: wild chimpanzees cracking Strychnos fruits

scientific article

Mortality rates among Kanyawara chimpanzees

scientific article published on 27 December 2013

Mortality rates among wild chimpanzees

scientific article

New Insights into the Evolution of the Human Diet from Faecal Biomarker Analysis in Wild Chimpanzee and Gorilla Faeces

scientific article

No evidence of short-term exchange of meat for sex among chimpanzees.

scientific article published on 21 May 2010

Non-dietary analytical features of chimpanzee scats

scientific article

Noninvasive Monitoring of the Health of Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii in the Kibale National Park, Uganda

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Norm violations and punishments across human societies

scientific article published in January 2023

Observational approaches to chimpanzee behavior in an African sanctuary: Implications for research, welfare, and capacity‐building

scientific article published in 2023

Overconfidence in wargames: experimental evidence on expectations, aggression, gender and testosterone

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Phylogenetic rate shifts in feeding time during the evolution of Homo ⬇️

scientific article published on August 22, 2011

Practical directions for the use of recall data in conservation science

Predation by female chimpanzees: Toward an understanding of sex differences in meat acquisition in the last common ancestor of Pan and Homo

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Primate behavior: apes of the world

scientific article published on 01 May 1987

Primate parental relations

scientific article published on 01 February 1981

Range use of the forest chimpanzees of Kibale: Implications for the understanding of chimpanzee social organization

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Rank influences human sex differences in dyadic cooperation

scientific article

Rates of predation on mammals by gombe chimpanzees, 1972–1975

scientific article published in 1990

Recognition of Predator and Competitor Calls in Nonhuman Primates and Birds: a Preliminary Report

scientific article published in 2010

Relationship between chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) density and large, fleshy-fruit tree density: conservation implications

scientific article

Relationship of chimpanzee leaf-swallowing to a tapeworm infection

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Reply to Wollstonecroft et al.: Cooking increases the bioavailability of starch from diverse plant sources.

scientific article published on 12 April 2012

Reply to Zefferman et al.: Cultural institutions can provide adaptive benefits for costly cooperation

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

Response to: Chimpanzee culture extends beyond matrilineal family units

scientific article published in June 2017

Risk factors for respiratory illness in a community of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

SIVcpz in wild chimpanzees

scientific article

SOME ASPECTS OF THE ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE DEFASSA WATERBUCK (KOBUS DEFASSA) IN ZAMBIA

scholarly article published in 1969

Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation

scientific article published on 9 June 2022

Screening wild and semi-free ranging great apes for putative sexually transmitted diseases: Evidence of Trichomonadidae infections

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Screening wild and semi-free ranging great apes for putative sexually transmitted diseases: Evidence of Trichomonadidae infections

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Seed predation by bonobos (Pan paniscus) at Kokolopori, Democratic Republic of the Congo

scientific article

Self-Interest and the Design of Rules

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Self-interested agents create, maintain, and modify group-functional culture

scientific article

Sex differences in chimpanzees' use of sticks as play objects resemble those of children ⬇️

scientific article published on December 21, 2010

Sex differences in the behavioural ecology of chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park, Tanzania.

scientific article published in January 1980

Sexual dimorphism in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and human age-specific fertility

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Sexual mimicry in hyenas

scientific article

Shallow-water habitats as sources of fallback foods for hominins

scientific article

Simultaneous outbreaks of respiratory disease in wild chimpanzees caused by distinct viruses of human origin

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Skeletal pathology in Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii in Kibale National Park, Uganda

scientific article published on April 2008

Social Exclusion: More Important to Human Females Than Males ⬇️

scientific article published on February 6, 2013

Social cognitive evolution in captive foxes is a correlated by-product of experimental domestication

scientific article

Social contact and hormonal changes predict post-conflict cooperation between friends

scholarly article

Social influences on inequity aversion in children

scientific article

Social selectivity in aging wild chimpanzees

scientific article

Spatio-temporal complexity of chimpanzee food: How cognitive adaptations can counteract the ephemeral nature of ripe fruit

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Starch granules, dental calculus and new perspectives on ancient diet

article by Karen Hardy et al published February 2009 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Strength determines coalitional strategies in humans

scientific article published on 8 April 2009

Studying extant species to model our past

scientific article

Subtle, Secret Female Chimpanzees ⬇️

scientific article published on August 8, 1997

Targeted conspiratorial killing, human self-domestication and the evolution of groupishness

scientific article published in January 2021

Technical note: variation in muscle mass in wild chimpanzees: application of a modified urinary creatinine method

scientific article published on 17 October 2012

Temporal patterns of crop-raiding by primates: linking food availability in croplands and adjacent forest

scientific article published in 1998

Testosterone and energetics in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

scientific article published on June 2005

The "domestication syndrome" in mammals: a unified explanation based on neural crest cell behavior and genetics

scientific article

The Foraging Costs of Mating Effort in Male Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

The Goodness Paradox

book on human evolutionary history

The Kibale Chimpanzee Project: Over thirty years of research, conservation, and change

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

The Raw and the Stolen. Cooking and the Ecology of Human Origins

scientific article (publication date: December 1999)

The Significance of Fibrous Foods for Kibale Forest Chimpanzees [and Discussion]

scientific article (publication date: 29 November 1991)

The development of feeding behavior in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

scientific article

The ecology and evolution of human‐wildlife cooperation

scientific article published on 20 June 2022

The energetic significance of cooking

scientific article

The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome

scientific article published in 2021

The evolution of human nutrition ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 May 2013

The evolution of sexuality in chimpanzees and bonobos

scientific article (publication date: March 1993)

The first cookout. Interview by Kate Wong

scientific article published in September 2013

The genetic signature of sex-biased migration in patrilocal chimpanzees and humans

scientific article

The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis

scientific article

The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies

scientific article

The relationship between testosterone and long-distance calling in wild male chimpanzees

scientific article

The rise of the hominids as an adaptive shift in fallback foods: plant underground storage organs (USOs) and australopith origins

scientific article

The role of rewards in motivating participation in simple warfare

scientific article

The self-domestication hypothesis: evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression

article

The significance of cooking for early hominin scavenging

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

The stable isotope ecology of Pan in Uganda and beyond

scientific article

The taste of birds: Pitohui!

scientific article published on December 18, 1992

Tolerance allows bonobos to outperform chimpanzees on a cooperative task

scientific article

Toshisada Nishida's contributions to primatology

scientific article published in January 2006

Triterpenoid saponin anthranilates from Albizia grandibracteata leaves ingested by primates in Uganda

scientific article published on June 2005

Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment

scientific article published in 2024

Two types of aggression in human evolution

scientific article published on 26 December 2017

URINARY MARKERS OF OXIDATIVE STRESS CORRESPOND TO INFECTION AND AGING IN WILD CHIMPANZEES

scholarly article in Innovation in Aging, vol. 3, Suppl 1, November 2019

Under Threat of Social Exclusion, Females Exclude More Than Males ⬇️

scientific article published on March 14, 2011

Urinary C-peptide tracks seasonal and individual variation in energy balance in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published on 25 November 2008

Urinary markers of oxidative stress respond to infection and late-life in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Vertical stratification of the nutritional value of fruit: macronutrients and condensed tannins

scientific article

Vocal signals facilitate cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published in 2022

Warfare and reproductive success in a tribal population

scientific article

Weak, but not strong, ties support coalition formation among wild female chimpanzees

scientific article published on 28 November 2022

What's so special about figs?

scientific article published in Nature

When cooperation begets cooperation: the role of key individuals in galvanizing support

scientific article

Wild chimpanzees exhibit humanlike aging of glucocorticoid regulation

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Wild chimpanzees rely on cultural knowledge to solve an experimental honey acquisition task

scientific article published on 22 October 2009

Wood and meat as complementary sources of sodium for Kanyawara chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Zoopharmacognosy: The Use of Medicinal Plants by Animals

article

‘Cooking as a biological trait’ ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: September 2003)

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