Beyond War

The classic opening scene of 2001, A Space Odyssey shows an ape-man wreaking havoc with humanity''s first invention--a bone used as a weapon to kill a rival. It''s an image that fits well with popular notions of our species as inherently violent, with the idea that humans are--and always have been--warlike by nature. But as Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues in Beyond War, the facts show that our ...