Most Dangerous Animal Human Nature and the Origins of War

Name: Most Dangerous Animal Human Nature and the Origins of War
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ISBN: 9780312537449

ISBN-10: 0312537441

ISBN-13: 9780312537449

Edition: 2009

Authors: David Livingstone Smith

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Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight. The Most Dangerous Animalasks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for human beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the story of whyallhuman beings have the potential to be hideously cruel and destructive to one another. Why are we our own worst enemy? The book shows us that war has been with us---in one form or another---since prehistoric times, and looking at the behavior of our close relatives, the chimpanzees, it argues that a penchant for group violence has been bred into us over millions of years of biological evolution.…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 2/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English