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From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations-whether between different species or between rival groups of humans-is seen as an inevitable part of the evolutionary process. The popular concept of "the survival of the fittest" explains and often excuses these actions. In Population Wars, Greg Graffin points to where the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray. That misunderstanding has allowed us to justify wars on every level, whether against bacterial colonies or human societies, even when other, less violent solutions may be available. Through tales of mass extinctions, developing immune systems, human warfare, the American industrial heartland, and our degrading modern environment, Graffin demonstrates how an over-simplified idea of war, with its victorious winners and vanquished losers, prevents us from responding to the real problems we face. Along the way, Graffin reveals a paradox: when we challenge conventional definitions of war, we are left with a new problem, how to define ourselves. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence by Greg Graffin (Thomas Dunne Books, $27.99).
Greg Graffin isn’t just the frontman for punk rock band Bad Religion. He’s also got a Ph.D. in evolutionary science and lectures at Cornell University, so when he writes about the evolutionary advantages of assimilating the losers in wars rather than annihilating them, it’s worth a read.
Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence suggests that cooperation plays a greater role in evolution than competition, despite the old “survival of the fittest” meme.
That’s an interesting—and debatable—point; the problem arises when some of his other points seem to contradict each other. Perhaps the difference between human cultures, which can cooperate, and human genes, which always compete, could have been drawn more clearly to avoid the confusion.
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