Richard Wrangham, primatologist and anthropologist, specialist in the field of primate evolution, professor at Harvard University, analyzes in detail and in an accessible way the scientific discussion on the most important questions: why people, representatives of a single biological species, are characterized by both amazing kindness and unthinkable cruelty| how these qualities, sometimes going far beyond the limits of common sense, appeared and were fixed in the course of the evolutionary history of mankind | where do we get moral feelings, concepts of good and evil | and most importantly, are we doomed by our evolutionary paradox to the eternal threat of violence.

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