DEMONIC MALES: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
By Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. Houghton Mifflin. 350 pp. $24.95
By Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. Houghton Mifflin. 350 pp. $24.95
DEMONIC MALES: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. By Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. Houghton Mifflin. 350 pp. $24.95
Why are men aggressive? For centuries, there have been only two explanations: original sin and human culture. Now come Wrangham, professor of anthropology at Harvard University, and Peterson, a professional writer, to offer a third possible explanation: the biological heritage we humans share with the great apes.