Why We Fight

by Mike Martin

Book Overview

Why are we willing to die for our countries? Does religion precipitate violence? Do pride, anger and vengeance lead to war? Can ideology persuade someone to blow themselves up?

This ground-breaking book explores how tens of thousands of years of evolution have shaped our brains to fight, and not to fight. Drawing on insights gleaned as a soldier and a scholar, and a biologist, Mike Martin explains how the lives and deaths of our ancestors have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849048894
• ISBN13: 9781849048897
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.6"