"Sex and War" and your animal brain
Humans and chimps are essentially the only animals that organize to kill each other. The authors of a new book explore how modern technology combines with the risk-assessment regions of our primitive brains to produce warfare. One of the authors of "Sex and War" says he watched an emotional buildup that seemed to make a U.S. invasion of Iraq inevitable and wanted to understand the biology of it. "I was struck by how big a factor the desire for revenge for 9/11 seemed to be," says Thomas Hayden.
Wired | 11/2008
This story published in SmartBrief on Leadership on 11/25/2008
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