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 hav...
| Основен автор: | Fry, Douglas P., 1953- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford,
2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=191572 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Beyond war. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xviii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (page 322) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199718818 0199718814 1281163473 9781281163479 |