Research Catalog

Title

War, peace, and human nature : the convergence of evolutionary and cultural views / edited by Douglas P. Fry.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fry, Douglas P., 1953-

Description

xviii, 562 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Social evolution
• Human evolution
• Peace > Social aspects
• War and society
• Human behavior

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 13-3698

ISBN

• 9780199858996 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0199858993 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012016714

OCLC

792941555

Title

War, peace, and human nature : the convergence of evolutionary and cultural views / edited by Douglas P. Fry.

Imprint

New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fry, Douglas P., 1953-

Research Call Number

JFE 13-3698