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Beyond war : the human potential for peace

The classic opening scene of 2001, A Space Odyssey shows an ape-man wreaking havoc with humanity's first invention--a bone used as a weapon to kill a rival. It's an image that fits well with popular notions of our species as inherently violent, with the idea that humans are--and always have been--warlike by nature. But as Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues in Beyond War, the facts show that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. Fry points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years, humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-ga
eBook, English, 2007
Oxford, Oxford, 2007
1 online resource (xviii, 331 pages) : illustrations
9780199718818, 9781281163479, 9786611163471, 9781435617223, 9780199885862, 9780199725052, 0199718814, 1281163473, 6611163476, 1435617223, 0199885869, 0199725055
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Charting a new direction
Do nonwarring societies actually exist?
Overlooked and underappreciated : the human potential for peace
Killer apes, cannibals, and coprolites : projecting mayhem onto the past
The earliest evidence of war
War and social organization : from Nomadic bands to modern states
Seeking justices : the quest for fairness
Man the warrior : fact or fantasy?
Insights from the Outback : Geneva Conventions in the Australian bush
Void if detached ... from reality : Australian "warriors," Yanomamö unokais, and lethal raiding psychology
Returning to the evidence : life in the band
Darwin got it right : sex differences in aggression
A new evolutionary perspective : the Nomadic forager model
Setting the record straight
A macroscopic anthropological view
Enhancing peace
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