| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 322) and index. |
| Contents |
Charting a new direction -- Do nonwarring societies actually exist? -- Overlooked and underappreciated : the human potential for peace -- Killer apes, cannibals, and coprolites : projecting mayhem onto the past -- The earliest evidence of war -- War and social organization : from Nomadic bands to modern states -- Seeking justices : the quest for fairness -- Man the warrior : fact or fantasy? -- Insights from the Outback : Geneva Conventions in the Australian bush -- Void if detached ... from reality : Australian "warriors," Yanomamö unokais, and lethal raiding psychology -- Returning to the evidence : life in the band -- Darwin got it right : sex differences in aggression -- A new evolutionary perspective : the Nomadic forager model -- Setting the record straight -- A macroscopic anthropological view -- Enhancing peace. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
War.
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War. |
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Warfare, Prehistoric.
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Warfare, Prehistoric. |
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Peace -- Social aspects.
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Peace -- Social aspects. |
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Peace. |
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Ethnology.
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Ethnology. |
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Conflict management -- Social aspects.
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Conflict management. |
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Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fry, Douglas P., 1953- Beyond war. Oxford ; New York : Oxford, 2007 0195309480 9780195309485 (DLC) 2006023638 (OCoLC)70668814 |
| ISBN |
9780199718818 (electronic book) |
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0199718814 (electronic book) |
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1281163473 |
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9781281163479 |
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0195309480 (Cloth) |
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9780195309485 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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