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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford,
2007.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (page 322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199718818 0199718814 1281163473 9781281163479 9786611163471 6611163476 9781435617223 1435617223 0199885869 9780199885862 0199725055 9780199725052 |