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Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Goodness ParadoxCondition: NewEAN: 9781781255841ISBN: 9781781255841Edition: MainPublisher: Profile Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/02/2020Item Height: 196mmItem Length: 130mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 320gAuthor: Richard WranghamLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less ViolentISBN-10: 1781255849Description: '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: organized 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: The Goodness Paradox

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Title: The Goodness Paradox

EAN: 9781781255841

ISBN: 9781781255841

Edition: Main

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback

Release Date: 01/02/2020

Release Year: 2020

Item Height: 196mm

Item Length: 130mm

Item Width: 28mm

Item Weight: 320g

Author: Richard Wrangham

Language: English

Subtitle: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

ISBN-10: 1781255849

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Genre: Society & Culture

Topic: Science Nature & Math

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