Man And Aggression

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1968. Softcover. Good Condition. Occasional slight external scuffs and nicks. Pages are unmarked and uncreased. Firm, tight bindings. A good used copy without major defects. Publisher's note: "The comparatively new science of ethology, or the study of the behavior of different species, has given rise to a number of hypotheses about man?s instinctual nature. A conception of man?s inborn aggressive drive -- a twentieth-century form of neo social Darwinism advanced by the eminent ethologist Konrad Lorenz, and popularized in books by Robert Ardrey -- has recently gained a wider acceptance than scientific objectivity can support. In this volume, edited by a distinguished anthropology and social biologist, fourteen experts offer a critique of this Hobbesian view of man, which is related to and possibly older than the doctrine of original sin. In the editor?s words, their purpose is to put the record straight, to correct what threatens to become an epidemic error concerning the causes of man?s aggression, and to redirect attention to a consideration of the real causes of such behavior. -- Back cover." xiv, 178 pp. . Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Psychology & Psychiatry; Aggression; Aggressiveness; Add. Inventory No: 230402ABX004053. .