Why We Hate: Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict

by Michael Ruse

Book Overview

An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social species

Why We Hate tackles a pressing issue of both longstanding interest and fresh relevance: why a social species like Homo sapiens should nevertheless be so hateful to itself. We go to war and are prejudiced against our fellow human beings. We discriminate on the basis of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197621287
• ISBN13: 9780197621288
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.2"