Research Catalog

Title

Demonic males : apes and the origins of human violence / Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson.

Author

Wrangham, Richard W., 1948-

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Lawrence, Paul R.
• Peterson, Dale

Description

350 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

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 startling new answers to these questions. Dramatic, vivid, and sometimes shocking, but firmly grounded in meticulous scientific research, Demonic Males will stir controversy and debate. It will be required reading for anyone concerned about the spiral of violence undermining human society.

Subject

• Hominidae
• Aggression
• Behavior, Animal
• Apes > Behavior
• Aggressive behavior in animals

Note

• "A mariner book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-330) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Paradise lost -- Time machine -- Roots -- Raiding -- Paradise imagined -- A question of temperament -- Relationship violence -- The price of freedom -- Legacies -- The gentle ape -- Message from the southern forests -- Taming the demon -- Kakama's doll.

ISBN

• 0395690013 (cloth)
• 9780395877432 (pbk.)
• 0395877431 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96020346^

OCLC

• 34798075
• SCSB-10331557

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library