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War, peace, and human nature : the convergence of evolutionary and cultural views / edited by Douglas P. Fry.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and society.
- Peace--Social aspects.
- Peace.
- Human behavior.
- Human evolution.
- Social evolution.
- Behavior.
- Cultural Evolution.
- Medical Subjects:
- Behavior.
- Cultural Evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (583 p.)
- Other Title:
- Convergence of evolutionary and cultural views
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this volume, editor Doug Fry brings together leading experts in human behavioural ecology, and evolutionary biology archeology, anthropology, and primatology to answer fundamental questions about conflict and human nature in an evolutionary context.
- Contents:
- War, peace, and human nature : the challenge of scientific objectivity / Douglas P. Fry
- Evolution and peace : a Janus connection / David P. Barash
- Conflict and restraint in animal species : implications for war and peace / Hanna Kokko
- An ethological perspective on war and peace / Peter Verbeek
- Cooperation, conflict, and niche construction in the genus Homo / Agustín Fuentes
- Why the legend of the killer ape never dies : the enduring power of cultural beliefs to distort our view of human nature / Robert W. Sussman
- Pinker's list : exaggerating prehistoric war mortality / R. Brian Ferguson
- Trends in cooperation and conflict in Native eastern North America / David H. Dye
- From the peaceful to the warlike : ethnographic and archaeological insights into hunter-gatherer warfare and homicide / Robert L. Kelly
- The prehistory of warfare : misled by ethnography / Jonathan Haas & Matthew Piscitelli
- The prehistory of war and peace in Europe and the Near East / R. Brian Ferguson
- Peaceful foragers : the significance of the Batek and Moriori for the question of innate human violence / Kirk Endicott
- Social control and conflict management among Australian Aboriginal desert people before and after the advent of alcohol / Robert Tonkinson
- Aggression and conflict resolution among the nomadic Hadza of Tanzania as compared with their pastoralist neighbors / Marina L. Butovskaya
- South Indian foragers' conflict management in comparative perspective / Peter M. Gardner
- The biocultural evolution of conflict resolution between groups / Christopher Boehm
- The 99 percent : development and socialization within an evolutionary context : growing up to become a "good and useful human being" / Darcia Narvaez
- Chimpanzees, warfare and the invention of peace / Michael L. Wilson
- Evolution of primate peace / Frances J. White, Michel T. Waller, & Klaree J. Boose
- Conflicts in cooperative social interactions in non-human primates / Sarah F. Brosnan
- Rousseau with a tail : maintaining a tradition of peace among baboons / Robert M. Sapolsky
- Conflict resolution in non-human primates and human children / Maaike Kempes, Liesbeth Sterck, & B. Orobio de Castro
- The evolution of agonism : the triumph of restraint in nonhuman and human primates / Douglas P. Fry & Anna Szala
- Social signaling, conflict management, and the construction of peace / Paul Roscoe
- The challenge of getting men to kill : a view from military science / Richard J. Hughbank & Dave Grossman
- Man the singer : song duels as an aggression restraint mechanism for nonkilling conflict management / Joám Evans Pim
- Cooperation for survival : creating a global peace system / Douglas P. Fry.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 0-19-985900-0
- 0-19-933268-1
- OCLC:
- 922972122
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