The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War

"Original and compelling insights into the human capacity for war . . . A must read for anyone interested in the psychological depths of human nature." —Barbara S. Held, author of Back to Reality

Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight.

The Most Dangerous Animal asks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for human beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the story of wh...