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**Human beings have always been cruel, savage, and murderous. Is that all about to change?**Human history can be seen as a catalog of coldhearted murders, mindless blood feuds, appalling massacres, and devastating wars. Creatively and intellectually, there is no other species that has ever come close to equaling humanity’s achievements, but neither is any other species as suicidally prone to internecine conflict. We are the only species on the planet whose ingrained habit of conflict and perpetual warfare constitutes the chief threat to our own survival.In __An End to Murder__, the Wilsons assess whether human beings are in reality as cruel and violent as is generally believed. The book explores the possibility that humankind is on the verge of a fundamental change: that we are about to become truly civilized. Covering a wide-reaching history of violence from the first hominids to the twenty-first century, the book touches on key moments of change while also indicating where things have not changed since the Stone Age. It follows the history of violence from fifteenth-century baron Gilles de Rais (“Bluebeard”), the first known and possibly most prolific serial killer in history; to

Who reads An End to Murder : A Criminologist's View of Violence Throughout History?

Author

Wilson, Colin; Wilson, Damon;

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780335285

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Sociology