0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > Early man

Buy Now

The Goodness Paradox - How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent (Paperback) Loot Price: R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
The Goodness Paradox - How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent (Paperback): Richard Wrangham

The Goodness Paradox - How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent (Paperback)

Richard Wrangham

 (1 rating, sign in to rate)
Loot Price R329 Discovery Miles 3 290

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

'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 Goodall

It 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.

General

Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2020
First published: 2019
Authors: Richard Wrangham
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 978-1-78125-584-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > Early man
LSN: 1-78125-584-9
Barcode: 9781781255841

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Adaptation and Human Behavior - An…
Lee Cronk, Napoleon A Chagnon, … Hardcover R4,163 Discovery Miles 41 630
Smarter Not Harder - A Guide to…
Dave Asprey Paperback R500 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000
Sapiens Graphic Novel - Volume 1
Yuval Noah Harari Hardcover R475 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790
How Humans Evolved
Robert Boyd, Joan B. Silk Paperback R3,779 Discovery Miles 37 790
Sensational - A New Story of our Senses
Ashley Ward Hardcover R507 Discovery Miles 5 070
First Steps - How Walking Upright Made…
Jeremy DeSilva Paperback R254 Discovery Miles 2 540
Social Life of Early Man
S.L. Washburn Paperback R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430
Who We Are and How We Got Here - Ancient…
David Reich Paperback  (1)
R373 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040
African Ecology and Human Evolution
Fran cois Bourli ere, Clark F. Howell Hardcover R7,350 Discovery Miles 73 500
Social Life of Early Man
S.L. Washburn Hardcover R6,400 Discovery Miles 64 000
Classification and Human Evolution
Sherwood L. Washburn Hardcover R6,409 Discovery Miles 64 090
Stories from the Skeleton - Behavioral…
Robert Jurmain Hardcover R4,012 Discovery Miles 40 120

See more

Partners