PDF-(BOOS)-War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates

A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our societyfor the betterWar What is it good for Absolutely nothing says the famous songbut archaeology history and biology show that war in fact has been good for something Surprising as it sounds war has made humanity safer and richerIn War What Is It Good For the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war going beyond the battles and brutality to reveal what war has really done to and for the world Stone Age people lived in small feuding societies and stood a oneinten or even oneinfive chance of dying violently In the twentieth century by contrastdespite two world wars Hiroshima and the Holocaustfewer than one person in a hundred died violently The explanation War and war alone has created bigger more complex societies ruled by governments that have stamped out internal violence Strangely enough killing has made the world safer and the safety it has produced has allowed people to make the world richer tooWar has been historys greatest paradox but this searching study of fifteen thousand years of violence suggests that the next half century is going to be the most dangerous of all time If we can survive it the ageold dream of ending war may yet come to pass But Morris argues only if we understand what war has been good for can we know where it will take us next. Tom Bickford. Maine Robotics. © 2012. Where it came from:. KAREL . CAPEK, 1920. A . Czechslovakian. playwright, wrote . Rossum’s. Universal Robots . about mechanical slaves that would do work for their human owners.. Thinking Questions. Did humans evolve from apes? . http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/teachstuds/svideos.html. Are non-human primates portrayed accurately in media (TV, . T. arzan, Planet of the Apes, King . Primates. Why study primates?. Social behavior offers clues to human behavior.. Many ‘human’ behavioral traits are seen in primates.. Examples?. Behavioral analysis combined with morphological comparisons allow us to determine probable behavior of human ancestors.. Taxonomy. Each taxon tells us more about that group’s . adaptations. . Makes important biological statements about genetic & evolutionary relationships. Adaptive Radiation. The evolution & spreading out of related species into new environmental niches. War in Europe and Asia. The . 17thC. . was a century of total . war. Europe. The Ottoman Empire. China. India. Military Revolution. 4 essential ingredients – . Tactics. Strategy. . army size . . overall impact.. J. Blackmon. Introduction. Alan Turing (1950) and The Turing Test. IBM’s Deep Blue beats world champion Garry Kasparov in chess. . (. 1997). IBM’s Watson beats two champions on . Jeopardy!. , interpreting natural language text and providing answers without live access to the Internet.. Cox Paisley IB. WHAP. Why Homer was used as the basis for Greek education. The . Polis,. or city-state, and how the city-states of Athens and Sparta differed. What the greeks meant by democracy, and in what way the Athenian political system was a democracy?. Presentation created by Robert L. Martinez. Primary Content Source: Prentice Hall World History. Images as cited.. Washed by the warm waters of the Aegean Sea, Crete was home to a brilliant early civilization. Minoan civilization reached its height between 1750 B.C.E. and 1500 B.C. E.. Meso = means middle. Refers to any cultures that lived in present-day Mexico & Central America. Olmec Civilization. One of the earliest Mesoamerican civilizations. Located near Gulf of Mexico. Knowledge of them comes from excavations of 2 main sites = San Lorenzo and La Venta . What defines a robot?. Sense. – a robot has to take in information about its environment. Plan. – a robot has to use that information to make a decision. Act. – a robot needs moving parts . to carry out commands. Lori Marino. The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy. Convergent Minds. The Evolution of Cognitive Complexity. Boston . University 2015. Outline. What is convergence?. Background on primate and cetacean evolution. What is a Robot??. A . robot.  is a machine or a computer program which seems to have a life of its own. .. A . social robot . is a robot that interacts and communicates with humans. . LEONARDO. The West vs. Islam. Miguel Inácio. Clash of Civilizations. Huntington defends conflict is not to become less prevalent between states just as Fukuyama believed. Instead believes humanity is following a new pattern of conflict, the latest phase of conflict;. Kate k. mays & . james. E. Katz. Division of emerging media studies, . boston. university. April 11, 2019. Research collaboration . China – Taiwan – United States.  Are there cultural differences between the East and West in terms of robot perceptions and attitudes?.