The North Adams Transcript’s review of “Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World”
By Bixby Chair Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden
Review By ARTHUR H. WESTING
Excerpt: “Potts, imbued with Darwinian evolution, proceeds to make a compelling case for the genetic basis of group violence. This essentially male trait (an insight largely gained from Campbell) of what he terms “coalitional violence” is prominent in our chimpanzee predecessors and has continued to be the unfailing norm throughout human pre-history and subsequent recorded history, to this day. That long-term record is amply demonstrated in the book; and he makes the case that this unfailingly pervasive behavioral propensity derives from continuing natural selection based on competition among males.”
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