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Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

by Dale Peterson & Richard Wrangham

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Other books by Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham

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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
by Richard Wrangham

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson