The Goodness Paradox — Richard Wrangham — Similar Books & Further Reading

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• The Biology of Moral Systems. — Alexander, R. D.
• Evolving Brains. — Allman, John M.
• The Death Penalty: An American History. — Banner, Stuart.
• How Evolution Explains Our Moral Nature. — Baumard, Nicolas.
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. — Beard, Mary.
• Aggression: Its Causes, Consequences, and Control. — Berkowitz, Leonard.
• Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. — Boehm, Christopher.
• Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame. — Boehm, Christopher.
• The Second World War: A People’s History. — Bourke, Joanna.
• A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution. — Bowles, Samuel.
• The Eternal Child: An Explosive New Theory of Human Origins and Behaviour. — Bromhall, Clive.
• Feral Children amd Clever Animals: Reflections on Human Nature. — Candland, Douglas K.
• A Farewell to Alms. A Brief Economic History of the World. — Clark, Gregory.
• The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. — Cochran, Gregory, and Henry Harpending.
• Why Evolution Is True. — Coyne, Jerry A.
• Darwinism, War and History: The Debate over the Biology of War from the ‘Origin of Species’ to the First World War. — Crook, D. Paul.
• Homicide. — Daly, Martin, and Margo Wilson.
• Voyage of the Beagle. In From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin’s Four Great Books — Darwin, Charles.
• The Extended Phenotype. — Dawkins, Richard.
• The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. — Des Pres, Terrence.
• Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved. — de Waal, F. B. M.
• Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. — de Waal, F. B. M.
• How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution. — Dugatkin, Lee, and Lyudmila Trut.
• The Myth of the Noble Savage — Ellingson, Ter.
• Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End and Honor Social Relationships. — Fiske, Alan Page, and Tage Shakti Rai.
• The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery and Empire. — Flannery, Kent, and Joyce Marcus.
• Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World. — Francis, Richard.
• The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions About War and Violence. — Fry, Douglas P.
• War in Human Civilization. — Gat, A.
• Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. — Goldhagen, Daniel J.
• The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior. — Goodall, Jane.
• The Mismeasure of Man. — Gould, Stephen Jay.
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families. — Gourevitch, P.
• Alexander the Great Failure: The Collapse of the Macedonian Empire. — Grainger, John D.
• Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them — Greene, Joshua.
• No More Killing Fields: Preventing Deadly Conflict. — Hamburg, David A.
• Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps Toward Early Detection and Effective Action. — Hamburg, David A.
• Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong. — Hauser, Marc D.
• The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory to the Present. — Hayden, Brian.
• War No More: Eliminating Conflict in the Nuclear Age. — Hinde, Robert, and Joseph Rotblat.
• The Domesticated Brain. — Hood, Bruce.
• Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding. — Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer.
• Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions. — Johnson, Dominic D. P.
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. — Junger, Sebastian.
• Galen’s Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature. — Kagan, Jerome.
• War Before Civilization. — Keeley, Lawrence H.
• Warless Societies and the Origins of War. — Kelly, Raymond C.
• Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. — Keltner, Dacher.
• The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease. — Lieberman, Daniel E.
• What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee. — Marks, Jonathan.
• The Anatomy of Courage. — Moran, John.
• The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars. — Overy, Richard.
• The History of White People. — Painter, Nell Irvin.
• Manipulative Monkeys: The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal. — Perry, Susan, and Joseph H.
• The Moral Lives of Animals. — Peterson, Dale
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. — Pinker, Steven.
• The Egalitarians—Human and Chimpanzee: An Anthropological View of Social Organization. — Power, Margaret.
• The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime. — Raine, Adrian.
• The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule. — Shermer, Michael.
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. — Snyder, Timothy.
• Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior — Sober, Elliott, and David S. Wilson.
• The Origin of Our Species. — Stringer, Christopher B.
• The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution. — Tattersall, Ian.
• The Primate Origins of Human Nature. — van Schaik, Carel P.
• The Social Conquest of Earth. — Wilson, Edward O.
• They Saw It Happen in Classical Times: An Anthology of Eye-Witnesses’ Accounts of Events in the Histories of Greece and Rome, 1400 B.C.–A.D. 540. — Workman, B. K.