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Human beings have been fighting one another since time immemorial. But why warfare and terrorism? What makes men almost always the killers, and why are warfare and sex so inextricably associated? Why do we wipe out members of our very own varieties intentionally, when few other pets or animals do this?Intimacy and Conflict traces the ethnic and biological evolution of warfare from its prehuman origins through to our very own times. Within the nature of Guns, Bacteria, and Steel, Potts and Hayden draw together insights from background, archaeology, psychology and biology to produce a clarifying new understanding of history and current occasions.Merging exhaustive research and rich personal experience, Intimacy and Conflict implies that warfare, terrorism, slavery, and the subjugation of women have common origins deep inside our biological history. Evolution is not future, however, and the creators, with the crucial efforts of Martha Campbell, show how relatively simple strategies can help the biology of peacefulness win out on the biology of warfare. In doing so, they construct a logical roadmap to make warfare less likely in the foreseeable future, and less brutal when it does occur.
