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Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Malcolm Potts; Thomas Hayden

Why do humans kill members of their own species intentionally, when few other animals do so? "Sex and War" traces the cultural and biological evolution of warfare from its prehuman origins through to modern times.


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  • Title Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
  • Author Malcolm Potts; Thomas Hayden
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Benbella Books
  • Date 2010-06-22
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781935251705 / 1935251708
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.18 x 1.26 in (22.81 x 15.70 x 3.20 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.609

About the author

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 US News & World Report, his articles and reviews have appeared in more than 20 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.

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