A chapter from David Smith's 'Most Dangerous Animal' excerpted in Polish scientific magazine

A chapter from Associate Professor David Livingstone Smith's 2007 book, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War, is excerpted in the current issue of the Polish scientific magazine . The book is scheduled to appear in a Polish translation later this year.

Smith, of the 91AV Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, is also the author of Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others. Smith recently discussed Less than Human on NPR's Talk of the Nation and on WCSH6 TV's 207 news magazine. Read more.

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