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Richard W. Wrangham

Richard W. Wrangham

Harvard University
United States

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Ecology and Evolution
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
123
Citations
49772
World Ranking
89
National Ranking
31

Richard W. Wrangham publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 382 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Richard W. Wrangham D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard W. Wrangham sits on this spectrum.

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99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1987 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Richard W. Wrangham is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with extensive contributions in social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and developmental biology.

The scientist's work covers numerous topics, including:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Frequently collaborating with Richard W. Wrangham are the following coauthors:

  • Zarin Machanda
  • Melissa Emery Thompson
  • Martin N. Muller
  • Emily Otali
  • Drew K. Enigk

The scientist has published repeatedly in certain academic venues, among which are:

  • American Journal of Primatology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Evolutionary Human Sciences

Among the most recent papers published by Richard W. Wrangham are:

  • "The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Social selectivity in aging wild chimpanzees," 2020, Science
  • "Competitive ability determines coalition participation and partner selection during maturation in wild male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)," 2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • "Targeted conspiratorial killing, human self-domestication and the evolution of groupishness," 2021, Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • "The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis," 2021, Nature Communications

Richard W. Wrangham has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993 and was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1987.

Best Publications

  • Cultures in chimpanzees

    A. Whiten;J. Goodall;W. C. McGrew;T. Nishida

  • An Ecological Model of Female-Bonded Primate Groups

    Richard W. Wrangham

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

    Richard W. Wrangham;James Holland Jones;Greg Laden;David Pilbeam

  • The “Domestication Syndrome” in Mammals: A Unified Explanation Based on Neural Crest Cell Behavior and Genetics

    Adam S. Wilkins;Adam S. Wilkins;Richard W. Wrangham;Richard W. Wrangham;W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • Evolution of coalitionary killing.

    Richard W. Wrangham

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

    Colin A. Chapman;Richard W. Wrangham;Lauren J. Chapman

  • On the evolution of Ape Social Systems

    Richard Wrangham

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

    Kevin E. Langergraber;Kay Prüfer;Carolyn Rowney;Christophe Boesch

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

    Brian Hare;Victoria Wobber;Richard Wrangham

  • Intergroup aggression in chimpanzees and humans

    Joseph H. Manson;Richard W. Wrangham;James L. Boone;Bernard Chapais

  • Does participation in intergroup conflict depend on numerical assessment, range location, or rank for wild chimpanzees?

    Michael L. Wilson;Marc D. Hauser;Richard W. Wrangham

  • INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN CHIMPANZEES

    Michael L. Wilson;Richard W. Wrangham

  • Tolerance Allows Bonobos to Outperform Chimpanzees on a Cooperative Task

    Brian Hare;Alicia P. Melis;Vanessa Woods;Sara Hastings

  • CHARTING CULTURAL VARIATION IN CHIMPANZEES

    Andrew Whiten;J. Goodall;W. C. McGrew;Toshisada Nishida

  • The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies

    P. R. Blake;K. McAuliffe;K. McAuliffe;K. McAuliffe;J. Corbit;T. C. Callaghan

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

    Micahel L. Wilson;Christophe Boesch;Barbara Fruth;Takeshi Furuichi

  • The Human Community as a Primate Society [and Comments]

    Lars Rodseth;Richard W. Wrangham;Alisa M. Harrigan;Barbara B. Smuts

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

    Martin N Muller;Richard W Wrangham

  • Evolutionary Consequences of Fallback Foods

    Andrew J. Marshall;Andrew J. Marshall;Richard W. Wrangham

  • Social Cognitive Evolution in Captive Foxes Is a Correlated By-Product of Experimental Domestication

    Brian Hare;Irina Z. Plyusnina;Natalie Ignacio;Olesya Schepina

  • The Energetic Significance of Cooking

    Rachel Naomi Carmody;Richard W. Wrangham

  • Mortality rates among wild chimpanzees.

    Kim Hill;Christophe Boesch;Jane Goodall;Anne Pusey

  • Dietary Response of Chimpanzees and Cercopithecines to Seasonal Variation in Fruit Abundance. II. Macronutrients

    Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain;Richard W. Wrangham;Kevin D. Hunt

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

    Lisa Naughton‐Treves;Adrian Treves;Colin Chapman;Richard Wrangham

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

    R.W. Wrangham;J.L. Gittleman;C.A. Chapman

  • Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence.@@@War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage.@@@A History of Warfare.

    Phillip S. Meilinger;Richard Wrangham;Dale Peterson;Lawrence H. Keeley

Frequent Co-Authors

Joyce F. Benenson
Joyce F. Benenson Harvard University
Colin A. Chapman
Colin A. Chapman Vancouver Island University
Christophe Boesch
Christophe Boesch Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Anne E. Pusey
Anne E. Pusey Duke University
John C. Mitani
John C. Mitani University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brian Hare
Brian Hare Duke University
William C. McGrew
William C. McGrew University of St Andrews
Tony L. Goldberg
Tony L. Goldberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Henry Markovits
Henry Markovits University of Quebec at Montreal
Lauren J. Chapman
Lauren J. Chapman University of Florida

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Tetsuro Matsuzawa

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