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May 7, 2012

Pinker, Politics, and the Decline of Violence: Roundtable on “The Better Angels of Our Nature”

This year's meeting of the International Studies Association featured a panel organized exclusively around Steven Pinker's book. Steven Pinker's book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature," has been getting substantial media attention this year, and it makes what many see as a surprising and counterintuitive claim about the decline of violence in human evolutionary history. Now, the academics weigh in. This year's meeting of the International Studies Association featured a panel organized exclusively around Pinker's book.

January 31, 2013

What Our Primate Relatives Say About War

With a clearer picture of where we came from, we may find a better understanding of who we are and where we are going.