authors:
- Hare, Brian
- Woods, Vanessa
content: 'A very nice read, describing the author''s work on the psychology of humans,
  dogs, chimpanzees and bonobos as a window into the history of human evolution. The
  main theme is that humans self-domesticated to become the cooperative, social and
  cultural species that we are today. But even if we are much more friendly towards
  strangers than most other species, we have a strong tendency to classify people
  in "us" and "them", and this underlies a lot of the problems in human society.


  This book is unusual in the genre in that it discusses explicitly some political
  aspects of the results in this field. However, it does so without reference to the
  main strands of political philosophy (except for a brief discussion of constitutional
  government). This is a problem, and makes the analysis weaker than it could be.
  However, it does try to provide ideas for positive action, and argues for creating
  arenas for interactions between foes as a means of creating greater understanding
  and, eventually, concrete friendships between persons, leading to peaceful co-existence.
  Segregation in various forms is not the way forward.'
date: '2022-07-10'
edition:
  published: '2020'
  publisher: HARPER COLLINS
goodreads: '56603012'
html: '<p>A very nice read, describing the author''s work on the psychology of humans,
  dogs, chimpanzees and bonobos as a window into the history of human evolution. The
  main theme is that humans self-domesticated to become the cooperative, social and
  cultural species that we are today. But even if we are much more friendly towards
  strangers than most other species, we have a strong tendency to classify people
  in &quot;us&quot; and &quot;them&quot;, and this underlies a lot of the problems
  in human society.</p>

  <p>This book is unusual in the genre in that it discusses explicitly some political
  aspects of the results in this field. However, it does so without reference to the
  main strands of political philosophy (except for a brief discussion of constitutional
  government). This is a problem, and makes the analysis weaker than it could be.
  However, it does try to provide ideas for positive action, and argues for creating
  arenas for interactions between foes as a means of creating greater understanding
  and, eventually, concrete friendships between persons, leading to peaceful co-existence.
  Segregation in various forms is not the way forward.</p>

  '
isbn: '9780861540235'
language: en
lastmod: '2022-07-10'
path: /library/hare-2020.html
published: '2020'
rating: 4
reference: Hare 2020
reviewed: '2022-07-10'
subjects:
- human-evolution
- science
title: Survival of the Friendliest
type: book
year: 2020