Sex and war
Subtitle: how biology explains warfare and terrorism and offers a path to a safer world
By: Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden
Contributors: Hayden, Thomas
Publisher: BenBella
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9781935251842
Subjects: Social Science; Human biology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace; War and society; Terrorism; Human evolution; Sex
Description: Human beings have been battling one another since time immemorial. But why war and terrorism? Why are men almost always the killers, and why are war and sex so inextricably linked? Why do we kill members of our own species intentionally, when few other animals do so? Sex and War traces the cultural and biological evolution of warfare from its prehuman origins through to our own times. In the spirit of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Potts and Hayden pull together insights from history, archaeology, psychology and biology to produce a clarifying new understanding of human history and current events.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Sex and violence; title: The war of nature; title: The missing link; title: We band of brothers; title: Terrorists; title: Women and war; title: Raids into battles; title: War and the state; title: War and technology; title: War and the law; title: Evil; title: The future of war; title: Women and peace; title: Stone age behaviors in the twenty-first century; title: Civilization at its best.