Intro -- Introduction: The Global Ape Between Extinction and Transcendence -- Chapter One: The Fiery People -- 1. War-Nests -- 2. Great Chefs -- 3. Highly Emotional People -- 4. Mind Readers -- 5. Socialites -- 6. Cuddly Punishers -- 7. The Cultural Animal -- 8. Masters of Complexity -- Chapter Two: Human Behavior, War, and The State -- Chapter Three: Global Elements of Genocide: The Scholars Speak -- Chapter Four: Enlightenment, Modernity, and Genocide Reconsidered -- Chapter Five: War's Dialectic? -- Chapter Six: All of Caesar's Men -- Chapter Seven: The Evolution of Leadership and Social Dominance -- Chapter Eight: The Babbling Ape -- Chapter Nine: The Religious Ape: Homo Religiosus -- Chapter Ten: The Shifting Sands of Science and Technology -- Chapter Eleven: Moral and Unfree or On the Moral Graciousness of Fatalism -- Chapter Twelve: The Global Ape: Between Transcendence and Extinction -- Bibliography. |