Are war and inequality inevitable, because evolution made men competitive and dominant? Think again with this entertaining yet powerful new history of \'true\' human nature.
It will change how you see injustice, violence and even yourself..
It\'s about the privileges humans claim, how they rationalise them, and how we unpick those ideas about our roots.
This book is not about what men and women are or do.
But our deeply human instincts towards equality have endured.
Ever since, these distortions have caused female, queer and minority suffering.
From bonobo sex and prehistoric childcare to human sacrifice, Joan of Arc, Darwinism and Abu Ghraib, this fascinating, fun and important book reveals that humans adapted to live equally, yet the earliest class societies suppressed this with invented ideas of difference.
Why Men? tells a smarter story of humanity, from early behaviours to contemporary cultures.
But that is bad science.
Evolution, they claim, has caused men to fight, and people-starting with men and women-to have separate, unequal roles.
How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperative and egalitarian, develop societies of enforced inequality? Why did our ancestors create patriarchal power and warfare? Did it have to be this way? Elites have always called hierarchy and violence unavoidable facts of human nature.
Are war and inequality inevitable, because evolution made men competitive and dominant? Think again with this entertaining yet powerful new history of \'true\' human nature
