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100 1  Smith, David Livingstone,|d1953-|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n89225639 
245 14 The most dangerous animal :|bhuman nature and the origins 
       of war /|cDavid Livingstone Smith. 
250    1st ed. 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2007. 
300    xviii, 263 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Bad taste business -- Einstein's question -- Our own worst
       enemy -- The origins of human nature -- Hamlet's question 
       -- A legacy of lies -- Moral passions -- Reluctant killers
       -- The face of war -- Predators, prey and parasites -- 
       Humanity lost and found -- Appendix: A partial list of 
       democides committed during the past 100 years. 
520    Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have 
       died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of
       slaughter in sight. The Most Dangerous Animal asks what it
       is about human nature that makes it possible for human 
       beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the
       story of why all human beings have the potential to be 
       hideously cruel and destructive to one another. Why are we
       our own worst enemy? The book shows us that war has been 
       with us - in one form or another - since prehistoric times,
       and looking at the behavior of our close relatives, the 
       chimpanzees, it argues that a penchant for group violence 
       has been bred into us over millions of years of biological
       evolution. The Most Dangerous Animal takes the reader on a
       journey through evolution, history, anthropology, and 
       psychology, showing how and why the human mind has a dual 
       nature: on the one hand, we are ferocious, dangerous 
       animals who regularly commit terrible atrocities against 
       our own kind, on the other, we have a deep aversion to 
       killing, a horror of taking human life. Meticulously 
       researched and far-reaching in scope and with examples 
       taken from ancient and modern history, The Most Dangerous 
       Animal delivers a sobering lesson for an increasingly 
       dangerous world. 
520    Also includes information on nonhuman aggression, American
       Civil War, cruelty toward animals, Bible, bonobos, brain, 
       chimpanzees, Christianity, war as cleansing, Charles 
       Darwin, Egypt, face, France, Sigmund Freud, genocide, 
       Germany, Greece, Adolf Hitler, David Hume, hunting, Islam,
       Japan, Jews and Judaism, killing at a distance, 
       Mesopotamia, mind-body problem, Native Americans, Nazis, 
       Plato, psychiatric casualties (post traumatic stress 
       disorder), religion, Rwanda, sex, slavery, Soviet Union, 
       Mark Twain, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam War, 
       women, World War I, World War II, Yanomammi (people), etc.
650  0 War.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145114 
650  7 War.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1170328 
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