Explorations: Animal Farm: Long Term History: Australia: The contradictory character of human beings - predation and co-operation

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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Against the backdrop of an Australian forest, Alan Macfarlane describes the two contradictory drives which motivate humans, namely their predatory hunting instinct and their co-operative and social nature.
 
Created: 2018-03-12 08:43
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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