Erika Lorraine Milam

Professor of History, Princeton University

Erika Lorraine Milam is professor of history at Princeton University in New Jersey. Her latest book is Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America (2019).

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Written by Erika Lorraine Milam

Painting of prehistoric humans near a cave, with two in the foreground, a group by an elephant and trees, and cave art on the wall.

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The hunt for human nature

We still live in the long shadow of Man-the-Hunter: a midcentury theory of human origins soaked in strife and violence

Erika Lorraine Milam