LEADER 03396nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910828201903321 005 20230207224856.0 010 $a0-19-771176-6 010 $a0-19-988586-9 010 $a0-19-972505-5 010 $a1-281-16347-3 010 $a0-19-971881-4 010 $a1-4356-1722-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000473240 035 $a(EBL)415124 035 $a(OCoLC)476240207 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000111202 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11125280 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111202 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080154 035 $a(PQKB)11201269 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415124 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10212213 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL116347 035 $a(OCoLC)190789038 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415124 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000473240 100 $a20060719d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond war$b[electronic resource] $ethe human potential for peace /$fDouglas P. Fry 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-538461-X 311 $a0-19-530948-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [322]) and index. 327 $aCharting a new direction -- Do nonwarring societies actually exist? -- Overlooked and underappreciated : the human potential for peace -- Killer apes, cannibals, and coprolites : projecting mayhem onto the past -- The earliest evidence of war -- War and social organization : from Nomadic bands to modern states -- Seeking justices : the quest for fairness -- Man the warrior : fact or fantasy? -- Insights from the Outback : Geneva Conventions in the Australian bush -- Void if detached ... from reality : Australian "warriors," Yanomamo? unokais, and lethal raiding psychology -- Returning to the evidence : life in the band -- Darwin got it right : sex differences in aggression -- A new evolutionary perspective : the Nomadic forager model -- Setting the record straight -- A macroscopic anthropological view -- Enhancing peace. 330 $aThe classic opening scene of 2001, A Space Odyssey shows an ape-man wreaking havoc with humanity's first invention--a bone used as a weapon to kill a rival. It's an image that fits well with popular notions of our species as inherently violent, with the idea that humans are--and always have been--warlike by nature. But as Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues in Beyond War, the facts show that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. Fry points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years, humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-ga 606 $aWar 606 $aWarfare, Prehistoric 606 $aPeace$xSocial aspects 606 $aEthnology 606 $aConflict management$xSocial aspects 615 0$aWar. 615 0$aWarfare, Prehistoric. 615 0$aPeace$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aConflict management$xSocial aspects. 676 $a303.6/6 700 $aFry$b Douglas P.$f1953-$0623345 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828201903321 996 $aBeyond war$94052092 997 $aUNINA