Why do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past examins the origins and development of human forms of organized violence. Kim and Kissel argue that human warefare is qualitatively different from forms of lethal, intergroup violence seen elsewhere in the natural world, and that its emergence is intimately connected to how humans evolved to the emergence of human nature itself. The book offers an introduction to the evolution of organized violence, along with its relationship to our evolution as a species, from an anthropological and archaeological perspective.
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Foreword |
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2 Dropping into the Rabbit Hole |
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3 The Recent, the Ancient, and the Very Ancient Past |
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5 Insights from Genomic Research |
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6 The Onset of Human Variability and Emergent Warfare |
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7 The Durability of Peace |
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Nam C. Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Marc Kissel is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, USA.