Sex and War How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World

by Potts, Malcolm; Hayden, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781935251705
• ISBN10: 1935251708
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-22
• Publisher: Benbella Books

Summary

Why do war and terrorism exist? Why do we set out to kill members of our own species intentionally, when few other animals do so? And why are sex and war inextricably linked?

Author Biography

Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOG, is the Bixby Professor at
the University of California, Berkeley. A graduate of Cambridge University
and trained as an obstetrician and research biologist, his profession
has taken him all over the world. Potts led a medical team into
Bangladesh immediately after the War of Liberation in 1972, and he has
worked in many other war-torn places including Vietnam and Cambodia,
Afghanistan, Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Liberia, and Angola. His most
recent books are Queen Victoria’s Gene and Ever Since Adam and Eve: The
Evolution of Human Sexuality.

Thomas Hayden is a freelance journalist who writes frequently about
science, medicine and culture. Formerly a staff writer at Newsweek and
U.S. News & World Report, his articles and reviews have appeared in
more than twenty publications, including National Geographic, Nature,
and The Washington Post. He is coauthor of On Call in Hell: A Doctor’s
Iraq War Story, a 2007 national bestseller. He lives in San Francisco with
his wife and fellow writer, Erika Check Hayden.

Table of Contents

Sex and Violence	p. 1
The War of Nature	p. 17
The Missing Link	p. 39
We Band of Brothers	p. 63
Terrorists	p. 99
Women and War	p. 119
Raids into Battles	p. 147
War and the State	p. 175
War and Technology	p. 213
War and the Law	p. 241
Evil	p. 265
The Future of War	p. 283
Women and Peace	p. 303
Stone Age Behaviors in the Twenty-First Century	p. 333
Civilization at Its Best	p. 365
To the Reader	p. 385
References	p. 389
Index	p. 411
About the Authors	p. 456
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