The goodness paradox : the strange relationship between virtue and violence in human evolution /
"Highly accessible, authoritative, and intellectually provocative, a startlingly original theory of how Homo sapiens came to be: Richard Wrangham forcefully argues that, a quarter of a million years ago, rising intelligence among our ancestors led to a unique new ability with unexpected consequ...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: virtue and violence in human evolution
- The paradox
- Two types of aggression
- Human domestication
- Breeding peace
- Wild domesticates
- Belyaev's rule in human evolution
- The tyrant problem
- Capital punishment
- What domestication did
- The evolution of right and wrong
- Overwhelming power
- War
- Paradox lost.
