The Domestication Of The Human Species by Bart J. Wilson
This work argues that humans have effectively domesticated themselves through culture, as households, property, ritual, and formal institutions channel our instincts into predictable, cooperative behavior. Drawing on cross-cultural examples, it traces how settlements and the built environment discipline aggression, reshape privacy and gender roles, and replace kin-based ties with impersonal rules and symbols. The result is a tamer, more interdependent species whose gains in social complexity and order come with constraints on spontaneity and freedom.
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- 1988
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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