Darwinism, War and History: The Debate Over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War

by Paul Crook and David Paul Crook

This book challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of peace biology, whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521466458
• ISBN13: 9780521466455
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"