Why we fight
Martin, Mike2018
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Why are we willing to die for our countries? Does religion precipitate violence? Do pride, anger and vengeance lead to war? Can ideology persuade someone to blow themselves up? This book explores how tens of thousands of years of evolution have shaped our brains to fight, and not to fight. Drawing on insights gleaned as a soldier and a scholar, and a biologist, Mike Martin explains how the lives and deaths of our ancestors have shaped our behaviour to propel us towards conflict, even as that option makes less and less sense.
Main title:
Why we fight / Mike Martin.
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Imprint:
London : Hurst & Company, 2018.London : Hurst & Company, 2018.
Collation:
224 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781849048897 (hbk)
Dewey class:
303.6
Language:
English
BRN:
1940825