Richard Wrangham
Ubuzima bwa Richard Wrangham

Richard yavukiye i Leeds, muri Yorkshire. Amaze imyaka myinshi mu ishami rya kaminuza ya Michigan, yabaye Umwarimu wa Biological Anthropology muri kaminuza ya Harvard kandi itsinda rye ry’ubushakashatsi ubu riri mu ishami rishya ryashinzwe ry’ibinyabuzima by’ubwihindurize. Ni mugenzi wa MacArthur. Afatanya n’umushinga wa Kibale Chimpanzee National Park muri Uganda, yakoze ubushakashatsi bw'igihe kinini muri iyi parike. Ubushakashatsi bwe busozwa no kwiga ku bwihindurize bw’abantu aho akuramo imyanzuro ishingiye ku bidukikije by’imyitwarire y’inguge. Nkumunyeshuri urangije, Wrangham yize munsi ya Robert Hinde na Jane Goodall.

Wrangham azwi cyane cyane ku bikorwa bye muri ecologiya ya sisitemu mbonezamubano (Ecology of apes), amateka y'ubwihindurize yo kwibasira abantu (bikarangira mu gitabo cye na Dale Peterson, Abadayimoni b'Abadayimoni: Inguge n'inkomoko y'ihohoterwa rya muntu), ndetse n'ubushakashatsi yakoze mu guteka ( incamake mu gitabo cye, Gufata umuriro: Uburyo Guteka Byatugize Umuntu) no kwigira wenyine. Ni ibikomoka ku bimera.

Wrangham yagize uruhare runini mu kumenya imyitwarire ifatwa nk "umuntu wihariye" muri chimpanzees, harimo n'umuco [6] hamwe na Eloy Rodriguez, chimpanzee yivura wenyine. 

Mu masomo aherutse kwigisha muri Human Evolutionary Biology (HEB) yibanze muri Harvard harimo HEB 1330 Imyitwarire mbonezamubano na HEB 1565 Inyigisho z’agahato ku gitsina (afatanije na Porofeseri Diane Rosenfeld wo mu ishuri ry’amategeko rya Harvard). Muri Werurwe 2008, yagizwe Umuyobozi w'inzu ya Currier House muri kaminuza ya Harvard. Yabonye impamyabumenyi y'icyubahiro muri Dogiteri wa siyansi yakuye muri kaminuza ya Oglethorpe mu 2011. [9]