The Book
Below is a listing of chapters. For a more detailed look at the content, check out Amazon's Look Inside feature and the Chapters Overview Video
- Chapter 1: The Journey We Will Take
- Chapter 2: We know what life is - a special case of chemistry
- Chapter 3: The only way to win is not to play - the problem with cooperation between organisms
- Chapter 4: The facts of life – reproduction and kin-selected behavior in humans
- Chapter 5: Death from a distance – the evolutionary logic of kinship-independent social cooperation
- Chapter 6: It takes a village to raise a human child
- Chapter 7: Throwing strikes on the village commons – the planet’s first remote killer and first kinship-independent social cooperator
- Chapter 8: Promiscuity and monogamy – sex and family life in the uniquely human village
- Chapter 9: Voices from the past: The evolution of 'language'
- Chapter 10: Wisdom of Crowds – Implications of uniquely human information sharing
- Chapter 11: The human mastery of Earth begins – The behaviorally modern human revolution and the first information economy
- Chapter 12: Neolithic and “agricultural” revolutions – Humans “settle down”
- Chapter 13: Elite body armor: Hierarchical coercive power and the archaic state
- Chapter 14: Modernity emerges from the barrel of a gun, Part 1 – artillery stabilizes the hierarchical state
- Chapter 15: Modernity emerges from the barrel of a gun, Part 2 – handguns democratize the modern state
- Chapter 16: The pan-human population takes full ownership of planet Earth – aircraft, nuclear explosives and the emergence of the pan-global human village
- Chapter 17: Final considerations -A humane future from our evolutionary past
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Events
- - 10-10: Sex, institutions, and politics: Joanne Souza & Paul Bingham at TEDxSBU
- - 09-23: Talk at Hofstra University's IDEAS Institute
- - Lively Discussions Following Radio Interview
- - 04/14: Talk on History and Political Behavior at SBU
- - 03/15: Lecture and Book Signing at SBU Wang Center
- - 03/10: Book Presentation and Signing at SBU Bookstore
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- - New publication in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology
- - New Review of the Book
- - Listen to the Talk from Society for American Archaeology
- - See NSF Evolutionary Studies Talk
- - See the Public Lecture Online
- - Radio Interview on "New Books In History"
- - Discuss Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Address
- - Student Testimonials Added
- - Chapters and Authors Videos Added
This book is an astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative overview of evolution, human origins and social organization. Breathtaking in its scope, and ranging from the earliest prehistoric period, through the course of the evolution of life on Earth, Death from a Distance presents a startlingly original thesis grounded in contemporary evolutionary theory. It will challenge countless well-entrenched theories about who we are as a species, where we came from and where we are going. Their arguments about the evolution of human sexual mores, language, the role of projectile weaponry in human evolution, and their predictions about the future course of human society are sure to ignite controversy. Yet, the aplomb with which Bingham and Souza present their arguments will give readers a clear appreciation why their undergraduate course is one of the most popular at Stony Brook University.
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