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Genetic Seeds of Warfare - Evolution, Nationalism, and Patriotism (Paperback)
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Genetic Seeds of Warfare - Evolution, Nationalism, and Patriotism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Security and Society
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For millennia humanity has simultaneously deplored and waged war.
With each conflict the stakes have risen, and we now face global
annihilation for the sake of a practice all the world claims to
condemn. Is there some seemingly irresistible force that impels us
toward our own destruction? To explain this central paradox of
human behaviour, Genetic Seeds of Warfare, originally published in
1989, advances a startling new theory. It traces the origins of
warfare back to early groups of Homo sapiens in competition for
scarce resources, showing that warfare evolved as these groups
evolved: kin-group against kin-group; tribe against tribe; nation
against nation. Rather than being tied to a specific gene, warfare
emerged as one of many behavioural strategies for maximising
genetic survival. As social groups became more complex, motivations
for warfare developed from simple protection of blood relations to
political appeals to shared ethnicity, religion, and national
identity. But the ultimate cause of warfare is rooted in the most
basic of human drives: the need to ensure that one's genes will
survive and reproduce. The authors challenge many assumptions about
human behaviour in general, and warfare in particular. They
convincingly present the case for an evolutionary understanding of
the propensity for warfare, supporting their argument with data
from a vast array of social and natural science research. In doing
so, they reveal why previous attempts at ending war have failed,
and make proactive suggestions toward the development of a new
agenda for world peace.
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