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The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

Door Richard Wrangham

Categorie
Psychologie
Boeknummer
#384545-UF1
Titel
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Auteur
Wrangham, Richard
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Profile Books Limited
Jaar van uitgave
2020
ISBN10
1781255849
ISBN13
9781781255841
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
'A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical forebears, and contemporary neighbors' Steven Pinker'A brilliant analysis of the role of aggression in our evolutionary history' Jane GoodallIt may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that we are perfect, just far less violent than most animals, especially our closest relatives, the chimpanzee and their legendarily docile cousins, the Bonobo. Perhaps surprisingly, we rape, maim, and kill many fewer of our neighbours than all other primates and almost all undomesticated animals. But there is one form of violence that humans exceed all other animals in by several degrees: organi... (Lees verder)zed proactive violence against other groups of humans. It seems, we are the only animal that goes to war. In the Goodness Paradox, Richard Wrangham wrestles with this paradox at the heart of human behaviour. Drawing on new research by geneticists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and archaeologists, he shows that what domesticated our species was nothing less than the invention of capital punishment which eliminated the least cooperative and most aggressive among us. But that development is exactly what laid the groundwork for the worst of our atrocities.
Pagina's
377
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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