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From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by conflict. Today, those first wars continue being fought around and literally inside us, influencing our specific behavior which of civilization all together. War between populations - whether between different species or between rival groups of humans - is seen as an unavoidable part of the evolutionary process. The favorite idea of "the success of the fittest" explains and often excuses these activities. In People Wars, Greg Graffin factors to where the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray. That misunderstanding has allowed us to justify wars on every level, whether against bacterial colonies or real human societies, even though other, less violent solutions may be accessible. Through stories of mass extinctions, developing immune systems, real human warfare, the American professional heartland, and our degrading modern environment, Graffin shows how an oversimplified notion of war, using its victorious winners and vanquished losers, inhibits us from responding to the true problems we face. Along the way, Graffin reveals a paradox: Whenever we challenge conventional definitions of war, we are left with a new problem - how to establish ourselves.
