The Paradox of Virtue

Richard Wrangham, a primatologist and anthropologist, an expert in primate evolution, a professor at Harvard University, details and explains the scientific discussion on the most important questions: why are humans, representatives of a single biological species, characterized simultaneously by both incredible kindness and unimaginable cruelty; how these qualities, sometimes going far beyond common sense, emerged and became established during the evolutionary history of humanity; where our moral feelings and concepts of good and evil come from; and most importantly — are we doomed by our evolutionary paradox to an eternal threat of violence.