Why war?, Christopher Coker
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Why war?, Christopher Coker
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Why war?
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
bibliographydictionaries
Oclc number
1269101883
Responsibility statement
Christopher Coker
Series statement
Oxford scholarship online.
Summary
What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to drive it? What is the history that has allowed it to evolve over time? And what are its functions - how does it survive and thrive by exploiting the features that define it as a species? These are the four questions of the Tinbergen Method for explaining animal behaviour, developed by the Nobel Prizewinning Dutch ethologist Niko Tinbergen. This book contends that applying this method to war - which is unique to humans - can help us better understand why conflict is so resilient. Christopher Coker explores these four questions of our past and present, and looks at our post-human future, assessing how far scientific advances in gene-editing, robotics and AI systems will de-centre human agency.--, Provided by publisher
Target audience
specialized
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