The Evolution of Morality and Violence

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In our gens, there is this tendency not to fight. If i have a reputation that i will fight if necessary, you're less likely to attack me. Soat there's a logic to deterrence. There something along those lines. How do you think about war and conflict that way? Well, i was impressed by some models that serge gabelits a university of tennessee, made. He compared what he called games of o us against them versus games of us against nature. And it turns out thata co operation can evolve for both reasonsbut it's somewhat easier to evolve.

In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, have spent years together and individually researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures.