The Evolution of Violence
Our contemporary capacity for understanding and empathy suggests that people are becoming less disposed to violence. At the same time, current developments in war technologies and the popularity of blood-soaked movies and video games point to the opposite
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Series editors Todd K. Shackelford Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford
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Todd K. Shackelford • Ranald D. Hansen Editors
The Evolution of Violence Foreword by Steven Pinker
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Editors Todd K. Shackelford Department of Psychology Oakland University Rochester, MI, USA
Ranald D. Hansen Department of Psychology Oakland University Rochester, MI, USA
ISBN 978-1-4614-9313-6 ISBN 978-1-4614-9314-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-9314-3 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013953283 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
In the century and a half of politically motivated opposition to Darwinism, no issue has energized the evolution-phobic as much as violence. It has always been easy to interpret Darwin’s “struggle for survival” as a violent struggle, and Darwin himself wrote that “from the war of nature … the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.” The movement called “social Darwinism” that emerged in Darwin’s time was interpreted as justifying violent struggle as the engine of civilizational progress, and 1960sera
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