Darwinism, War and History: The Debate Over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World WarThis book challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of "peace biology," whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world prior to 1919, this study throws important new light on militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought. |
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... evolutionary pressures . In this he anticipated the neo- Darwinist doctrine of modern sociobiology . In fact the ancestors of sociobiology on war and human aggression are to be discovered in the era from 1880 to 1919 . World War I ...
... evolutionary pressures . In this he anticipated the neo- Darwinist doctrine of modern sociobiology . In fact the ancestors of sociobiology on war and human aggression are to be discovered in the era from 1880 to 1919 . World War I ...
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... evolutionary , and especially Dar- winian , discourse to counter the war school's use of struggle - based analogies from nature . Peace biology expounded an optimistic world- view based upon Darwin's holistic ecology , and used new ...
... evolutionary , and especially Dar- winian , discourse to counter the war school's use of struggle - based analogies from nature . Peace biology expounded an optimistic world- view based upon Darwin's holistic ecology , and used new ...
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... evolutionary ethics that were being made in philosophical and other circles . This style of thought , sceptical of analogy and determinism , proved of major benefit to the peace tradition . Its talk was of humans being able to escape ...
... evolutionary ethics that were being made in philosophical and other circles . This style of thought , sceptical of analogy and determinism , proved of major benefit to the peace tradition . Its talk was of humans being able to escape ...
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Contents
The Darwinian legacy | 6 |
The age of Spencer and Huxley | 29 |
Crisis in the west the prewar generation and the new biology | 63 |
The natural decline of warfare antiwar evolutionism prior to 1914 | 98 |
The First World War man the fighting animal | 130 |
The survival of peace biology | 153 |
Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends | 176 |
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