The Psychology of Modern Conflict: Evolutionary Theory, by K. Payne

By K. Payne

What does smooth battle, as fought by way of liberal societies, have in universal with our human evolution? This learn posits an incredible courting among the 2 now we have developed to struggle, and conventional hunter-gatherer societies have been usually violent locations. yet we additionally developed to cooperate, to consider empathy and to act altruistically in the direction of others.

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