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100 1  Masson, J. Moussaieff|q(Jeffrey Moussaieff),|d1941- 
245 10 Beasts :|bwhat animals can teach us about the origins of 
       good and evil /|cJeffrey Moussaieff Masson 
264    New York, N.Y. :|bBloomsbury,|c2014 
520    "There are two supreme predators on the planet with the 
       most complex brains in nature: humans and orcas. In the 
       twentieth century alone, one of these animals killed 200 
       million members of its own species, the other has killed 
       none. Jeffrey Masson's fascinating new book begins here: 
       There is something different about us. In his previous 
       bestsellers, Masson has showed that animals can teach us 
       much about our own emotions--love (dogs), contentment 
       (cats), grief (elephants), among others. But animals have 
       much to teach us about negative emotions such as anger and
       aggression as well, and in unexpected ways. In Beasts he 
       demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" 
       is mostly a matter of projection. We link the basest human
       behavior to animals, to "beasts" ("he behaved no better 
       than a beast"), and claim the high ground for our species.
       We are least human, we think, when we succumb to our 
       primitive, animal ancestry. Nothing could be further from 
       the truth. Animals, at least predators, kill to survive, 
       but there is nothing in the annals of animal aggression 
       remotely equivalent to the violence of mankind. Our burden
       is that humans, and in particular humans in our modern 
       industrialized world, are the most violent animals to our 
       own kind in existence, or possibly ever in existence on 
       earth. We lack what all other animals have: a check on the
       aggression that would destroy the species rather than 
       serve it. It is here, Masson says, that animals have 
       something to teach us about our own history. In Beasts, he
       strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, 
       offering a powerful and compelling look at our uniquely 
       human propensity toward aggression"--|cProvided by 
       publisher 
650  0 Violence|xSocial aspects 
650  0 Cruelty|xSocial aspects 
650  0 Animal behavior 
650  0 Emotions in animals 
650  0 Animal psychology 
650  7 Djurpsykologi|2sao 
650  7 Etologi|2sao 
650  7 Evolutionspsykologi|2sao 
650  7 Känslor|2sao 
650  7 Moral|2sao 
650  7 Etik|2sao 
650  7 Människan|xetik och moral|2sao 
650  7 Godhet|2sao 
650  7 Ondska|2sao 
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