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Sto caricando le informazioni... Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer Worlddi Malcolm Potts, Thomas Hayden
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As news of war and terror dominates the headlines, scientist Malcolm Potts and veteran journalist Thomas Hayden take a step back to explain it all. In the spirit of Guns, Germs and Steel, Sex and War asks the basic questions: Why is war so fundamental to our species? And what can we do about it? Malcolm Potts explores these questions from the frontlines, as a witness to war-torn countries around the world. As a scientist and obstetrician, Potts has worked with governments and aid organizations globally, and in the trenches with women who have been raped and brutalized in the course of war. Combining their own experience with scientific findings in primatology, genetics, and anthropology, Potts and Hayden explain war’s pivotal position in the human experience and how men in particular evolved under conditions that favored gang behavior, rape, and organized aggression. Drawing on these new insights, they propose a rational plan for making warfare less frequent and less brutal in the future. Anyone interested in understanding human nature, warfare, and terrorism at their most fundamental levels will find Sex and War to be an illuminating work, and one that might change the way they see the world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This book makes sense of the senseless. A little background on me first, I'm first generation German and my 'significant other' is a retired career Marine (I knew him for several years before he joined the Corps so I have a before/after comparison of him). I've never been able to understand how reasonable, logical men could consider war a good thing and/or how they could be trained to kill/torture other human beings. This book has presented an argument/theory that makes sense of this. The author is an OB/GYN who has worked in war torn countries and who can give a first hand account of what happens war situations. Pulling no punches and making no apologies, the author explains how the psychology/physiology of young men makes war/conflict all but inevitable without mitigating influences. But this book is not only an explanation of the war instinct (with sex being the driving motivator) but also presents a well thought out solution to helping peace 'break out'. Ignoring the issues of over population, resource depletion and the subjugation of women at our own peril we can choose to make a more peaceful future by addressing solutions. The situation is not hopeless but it requires action; inaction could cause the same kind of catastrophe as happened on Easter Island but on a global scale. A very important read, recommended to and for everyone. ( )