Table of Contents
Introduction: The Global Ape Between Extinction and Transcendence 9
Chapter 1 The Fiery People 13
1 War-Nests 33
2 Great Chefs 34
3 Highly Emotional People 35
4 Mind Readers 37
5 Socialites 39
6 Cuddly Punishers 40
7 The Cultural Animal 44
8 Masters of Complexity 46
Chapter 2 Human Behavior, War, and The State 51
Chapter 3 Global Elements of Genocide: The Scholars Speak 77
Chapter 4 Enlightenment, Modernity, and Genocide Reconsidered 103
Chapter 5 War's Dialectic? 133
Chapter 6 All of Caesar's Men 145
Chapter 7 The Evolution of Leadership and Social Dominance 153
Chapter 8 The Babbling Ape 167
Chapter 9 The Religious Ape: Homo Religiosus 181
Chapter 10 The Shifting Sands of Science and Technology 203
Chapter 11 Moral and Unfree or On the Moral Graciousness of Fatalism 215
Chapter 12 The Global Ape: Between Transcendence and Extinction 237
Bibliography 245
