Creatures of Cain : : The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America / / Erika Lorraine Milam.
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 man's evolutionary success to his unique capacity for murder.Drawing on a wealth of archival mat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 33 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- PART I. THE ASCENT OF MAN
- Introduction
- 1. Humanity in Hindsight
- 2. Battle for the Stone Age
- 3. Building Citizens
- PART II. NATURALIZING VIOLENCE
- Introduction
- 4. Cain's Children
- 5. The Human Animal
- 6. Man and Beast
- PART III. UNMAKING MAN
- Introduction
- 7. Woman the Gatherer
- 8. The Academic Jungle
- 9. The Edge of Respectability
- PART IV. POLITICAL ANIMALS
- Introduction
- 10. The White Problem in America
- 11. A Dangerous Medium
- 12. Moral Lessons
- PART V. DEATH OF THE KILLER APE
- Introduction
- 13. The New Synthesis
- 14. The Old Determinism
- 15 Human Nature
- Coda
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index