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Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence Paperback - 1997

by Dale Peterson; Richard Wrangham

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Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can be done about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, "Demonic Males" offers some startling new answers to these questions.

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  • Title Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
  • Author Dale Peterson; Richard Wrangham
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0395877431I5N00
  • ISBN 9780395877432 / 0395877431
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.59 x 0.92 in (21.08 x 14.20 x 2.34 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96020346
  • Dewey Decimal Code 156.5

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Summary

Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, Demonic Males offers some startling new answers. Dramatic, vivid, and firmly grounded in meticulous research, this book will change the way you see the world. As the San Francisco Chronicle said, it "dares to dig for the roots of a contentious and complicated subject that makes up much of our daily news."

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"YOU WILL BE KILLED!" the man at the Burundian embassy in Kampala said, in a bizarrely cheerful voice, as he stamped our visas.

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"The heroes of this fascinating account of primate behavior and evolution are bonobos, members of a species closely related to both humans and chimpanzees but distinguished by its comparatively nonviolent and relatively egalitarian social structure. Wrangham and Peterson look to studies of bonobo social organization and behavior for insight into social mechanisms to control human violence. The influence of sociobiology is evident at every step in the authors' argument, acquainting readers with their response to the so-called "nature-nurture" controversy (which the authors dub "Galton's error"). The book is an accessible, gripping, sometimes surprising account of the depth and extent of violent behavior among primates as well as a provocative discussion of its origins and possible remedies." Booklist, ALA

"Powerful and moving . . . as absorbing as it is sobering. It desrves a wide audence." Kirkus Reviews

"Startling, beautifully written, riveting, provocative" Publishers Weekly