Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
- ISBN-10
- 0395877431
- ISBN-13
- 9780395877432
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 350
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Authors
- Richard W. Wrangham, Dale Peterson
Description
Draws on recent discoveries about human evolution to examine whether violence among men is a product of their primitive heritage, and searches for solutions to the problems of war, rape, and murder
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