Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past - 9781629582665

Taylor & Francis

Why do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? This book examines the origins and development of human forms of organized violence from an anthropological and archaeological perspective. Kim and Kissel argue that human warfare 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 and to the emergence of human nature itself.\n > Foreword \u2013 Lawrence H. Keeley1. Peering into the Abyss2. Dropping into the Rabbit Hole3. The Recent, the Ancient, and the Very Ancient Past4. The Ice Age World5. Insights from Genomic Research6. The Onset of Human Variability and Emergent Warfare7. The Durability of Peace8. There and Back Again > \n\""Kim is an anthropo-logical archaeologist, Kissel a paleoanthropologist, and together they have put together a survey of war and its origins that is more authoritative and comprehensive than any work currently on the marketA