Evolution and the Human-Animal Drive to Conflict examines how
fundamental, universal animal drives, such as dominance/prevalence,
survival, kinship, and "profit" (greed, advantage, whether of
material or social nature), provide the basis for the evolutionary
trap that promotes the unstable, conflictive, dominant-prone
individual and group human behaviours. Examining this behavioural
tension, this book argues that while these innate features set up
behaviours that lean towards aggression influenced by social
inequalities, the means implemented to defuse them resort to
emotional and intellectual strategies that sponsor fanaticism and
often reproduce the very same behaviours they intend to defuse. In
addressing these concerns, the book argues that we should enhance
our resources to promote solidarity, accept cultural differences,
deter expansionist and uncontrolled profit drives, and achieve
collective access towards knowledge and progress in living
conditions. This entails promoting the redistribution of resources
and creative labour access and avoiding policies that generate a
fragmented world with collective and individual development
disparities that invite and encourage dominance behaviours. This
resource redistribution asserts that it is necessary to reformulate
the global set of human priorities towards increased access to
better living conditions, cognitive enhancement, a more amiable
interaction with the ecosystem and non-aggressive cultural
differences, promote universal access to knowledge, and enhance
creativity and cultural convivence. These behavioural changes
entail partial derangement of our ancestral animal drives
camouflaged under different cultural profiles until the species
succeeds in replacing the dominance of basic animal drives with
prosocial, collective ones. Though it entails a formidable task of
confronting financial, military, and religious powers and cultural
inertias – human history is also a challenging, continuous
experience in these domains – for the sake of our own
self-identity and self-evaluation, we should reject any suggestion
of not continuing embracing slowly constructing collective utopias
channelled towards improving individual and collective freedom and
creativeness. This book will interest academics and students in
social, cognitive, and evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences,
palaeoanthropology, philosophy, and anthropology.
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