Demonic males
by Dale Peterson, Richard Wrangham · first published 1997
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Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closest living relatives, the great apes, Demonic Males offers some startling new answers. Dramatic, vivid, and firmly grounded in meticulous research, this book will change the way you see the world.
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…similar to my view on "greed" or "personal self-interest." It exists. We are a tribal species, as any survey of human history will show, from the time of the Chimpanzees onward ( https://www.amazon.com/Demonic-Males-Origins-Human-Violence/... ). Specifically, humans form tribes that are some combination of clan/ethnicity based, or are synthetic tribes based on ideology/beliefs/religion/nationalism. Social policy…
on “If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will” ↗http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Common_... http://www.amazon.com/Demonic-Males-Origins-Human-Violence/d...
on “The Case Against Reality” ↗The book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Demonic-Males-Origins-Human-Violenc... has more info.
on “Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town” ↗…actually almost certainly arise from evolution. Love helps reproduce the species, wiping out the adjacent tribe and grabbing their resources helps also and if you are too nice they may wipe you instead. See 'Demonic Males' and the like for how chimps and early man did much the same kind of thing with of the order of a third of males dying in war like activities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic_Males Now we're getting…
on “Why Men Love War (1984)” ↗There was an interesting book about some of it, Demonic Males (http://www.amazon.com/Demonic-Males-Origins-Human-Violence/d...). It might be a bit dated now (1997).
on “The Gombe Chimpanzee War” ↗Bad though that was, massacres and genocides go back millenia and went on without much tech involved. eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history#Neanderth..., Pinker's stuff, the book Demonic Males on how chimps do it
on “Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life” ↗