Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
Erika Lorraine Milam • Princeton University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0691181882
Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
Erika Lorraine Milam • Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 0691181888 · ISBN-13: 978‑0691181882 · 2019
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Erika Lorraine Milam examines the mid-twentieth-century scientific obsession with human aggression, tracing how Cold War researchers reframed evolutionary history to position violence as a fundamental driver of human development.
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