Milam Erika Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America 9780691181882

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Автор: Milam Erika
Название: Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
Перевод названия: Эрика Милам: Творения Каина. Охота на человека в Америке времен холодной войны
ISBN: 9780691181882
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Философия науки

История естественных наук

Эволюция

ISBN-10: 0691181888
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 264
Вес: 0.84 кг.
Дата издания: 11.12.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 166 x 243 x 39
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Поставляется из: Англии
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How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species unique capacity for murder

After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that attributed mans evolutionary success to his unique capacity for murder.

Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and in-depth interviews, Erika Lorraine Milam reveals how the scientists who advanced this killer ape theory capitalized on an expanding postwar market in intellectual paperbacks and widespread faith in the power of science to solve humanitys problems, even to answer the most fundamental questions of human identity. The killer ape theory spread quickly from colloquial science publications to late-night television, classrooms, political debates, and Hollywood films. Behind the scenes, however, scientists were sharply divided, their disagreements centering squarely on questions of race and gender. Then, in the 1970s, the theory unraveled altogether when primatologists discovered that chimpanzees also kill members of their own species. While the discovery brought an end to definitions of human exceptionalism delineated by violence, Milam shows how some evolutionists began to argue for a shared chimpanzee-human history of aggression even as other scientists discredited such theories as sloppy popularizations.

A wide-ranging account of a compelling episode in American science, Creatures of Cain argues that the legacy of the killer ape persists today in the conviction that science can resolve the essential dilemmas of human nature.

Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America, Milam Erika