- Human evolution, Human behavior, Aggressiveness, Social conflict
"Highly accessible, authoritative, and intellectually provocative, a startlingly original theory of how Homo sapiens came to be: Richard Wrangham forcefully argues that, a quarter of a million years ago, rising intelligence among our ancestors led to a unique new ability with unexpected consequences: our ancestors invented socially sanctioned capital punishment, facilitating domestication, increased cooperation, the…
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Earnest, classical in form, cool and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Richard Wrangham
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books, Pantheon, Profile Books Limited
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781781255834
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