{"product_id":"why-we-fight","title":"Why We Fight","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy 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 shaped our behavior to propel us towards conflict  even as that option makes less and less sense.  Why We Fight highlights the continuums between animal and human individual violence and explains how mankind has massively reduced the preponderance of warfare by creating larger and larger social groups. Together  these arguments form a compelling demonstration of humans evolutionary predisposition to warfare  rooted in a prehistoric past when going to war actually increased your chances of survival. Our contemporary world is marked by the disintegration of social groups  which inevitably increases the likelihood of conflict -- yet  Martin concludes  humans may still ultimately outlive warfare altogether  consigning it to history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948895039541,"sku":"ByrdShop_1849048894","price":93.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781849048897.jpg?v=1770061528","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/why-we-fight","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}