Why We Hate: Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict

An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social species



Why We Hate tackles a pressing issue of both longstanding interest and fresh relevance: why a social species like Homo sapiens should nevertheless be so hateful to itself. We go to war and are prejudiced against our fellow human beings. We discriminate on the basis of nationality, class, race, sexual orientation, religion, and gender. ...