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Zusatztext It is an essential book that should be widely read within anthropology! other human and biological sciences! and by an informed public. Informationen zum Autor Douglas P. Fry is co-director of the joint master's program in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research at Åbo Akademi University in Vasa, Finland and an adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Fry is author of Beyond War (2007, Oxford) and The Human Potential for Peace (2006, Oxford). Klappentext In War, Peace, and Human Nature, editor Doug Fry brings together leading experts in human behavioral ecology, and evolutionary biology, archeology, anthropology, and primatology to answer fundamental questions about conflict and human nature in an evolutionary context. Zusammenfassung In War, Peace, and Human Nature, editor Doug Fry brings together leading experts in human behavioral ecology, and evolutionary biology, archeology, anthropology, and primatology to answer fundamental questions about conflict and human nature in an evolutionary context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Frans B. M. de Waal; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; 1 War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Challenge of Scientific Objectivity; Douglas P. Fry; Section I: Ecological and Evolutionary Models; 2 Evolution and Peace: A Janus Connection; David P. Barash; 3 Conflict and Restraint in Animal Species: Implications for War and Peace; Hanna Kokko; 4 An Ethological Perspective on War and Peace; Peter Verbeek; 5 Cooperation, Conflict, and Niche Construction in the genus Homo; Agustin Fuentes; Section II: Lessons from Prehistory: War and Peace in the Past; 6 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; 7 Pinker's List: Exaggerating Prehistoric War Mortality; R. Brian Ferguson; 8 Trends in Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America; David H. Dye; 9 From the Peaceful to the Warlike: Ethnographic and Archaeological Insights into; Hunter-Gatherer Warfare and Homicide; Robert Kelly; 10 The Prehistory of Warfare: Misled by Ethnography; Jonathan Haas & Matthew Piscitelli; 11 The Prehistory of War and Peace in Europe and the Near East; R. Brian Ferguson; Section III: Nomadic Foragers: Insights about Human Nature; 12 Peaceful Foragers: The Significance of the Batek and Moriori for the Question of; Innate Human Violence; Kirk Endicott; 13 Social Control and Conflict Management among Australian Aboriginal Desert; People Before and After the Advent of Alcohol; Robert Tonkinson; 14 Aggression and Conflict Resolution among the Nomadic Hadza of Tanzania as; Compared with their Pastoralist Neighbors; Marina L. Butovskaya; 15 South Indian Foragers' Conflict Management in Comparative Perspective; Peter M. Gardner; 16 The Biocultural Evolution of Conflict Resolution between Groups; Christopher Boehm; 17 The 99%-Development and Socialization within an Evolutionary Context:; Growing Up to Become a Good and Useful Human Being; Darcia Narvaez; Section IV: The Primatological Context of Human Nature; 18 Chimpanzees, Warfare and the Invention of Peace; Michael L. Wilson; 19 Evolution of Primate Peace; Frances J. White, Michel T. Waller, & Klaree J. Boose; 20 Conflicts in Cooperative Social Interactions in Non-Human Primates; Sarah F. Brosnan; 21 Rousseau with a Tail: Maintaining a Tradition of Peace among Baboons; Robert M. Sapolsky; 22 Conflict Resolution in Non-Human Primates and Human Children; Maaike Kempes, E. H. M. Sterck, & B. Orobio de Castro; Section V: Taking Restraint against Killing Seriously; 23 The Evolution of Agonism: The Triumph of Restraint in Nonhuman and Human Primates; Douglas P. Fry & Anna Szala; 24 Social Signaling, Conflict Management, and the Construction of Peace; Paul (Jim) Roscoe; 25 The Challenge of Getting Men to Kill: A View from Military Science; Richard J. Hughba...
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In War, Peace, and Human Nature, editor Doug Fry brings together leading experts in human behavioral ecology, and evolutionary biology, archeology, anthropology, and primatology to answer fundamental questions about conflict and human nature in an evolutionary context.
