- Aggressive behavior in animals, Apes, Behavior, Animal Behavior
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.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and earnest.
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- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Dale Peterson, Richard Wrangham
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 350
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780395877432
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