Peter Turchin, Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth (Chaplin, CT: Beresta Books, 2015), 274 pp. ISBN: 978-0-99613-953-3. $18.95 pbk, $9.95 ePub; Kindle.
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Ultrasociety, ecology, biocultural evolutionAbstract
Peter Turchin, Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth (Chaplin, CT: Beresta Books, 2015), 274 pp. ISBN: 978-0-99613-953-3. $18.95 pbk, $9.95 ePub; Kindle.
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de Waal, F. B. M., P. Smith Churchland, T. Pievani and S. Parmigiani, eds. 2014. Evolved Morality: The Biology and Philosophy of Human Conscience. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
Flannery, K., and J. Marcus. 2012. The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674064973
Jaspers, K. 1947. Vom europäischen Geist: Vortrag gehalten bei den Recontres Internationales de Genève. Munich: Piper.
Keeley, L. H. 1996. War Before Peace: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Pinker, S. 2011. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. New York: Viking.
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Petersen, A. K. (2018). Peter Turchin, Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth (Chaplin, CT: Beresta Books, 2015), 274 pp. ISBN: 978-0-99613-953-3. $18.95 pbk, $9.95 ePub; Kindle. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 3(1-2), 240-244. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.33933
