The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War

by David Livingstone Smith

Book Overview

Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight. The Most Dangerous Animal asks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for human beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the story of why all human beings have the potential to be hideously cruel and destructive to one another. Why are we our own worst enemy? The book shows us that war has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312537441
• ISBN13: 9780312537449
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"