Biologically-based solutions cannot solve war, any more than biologically-based theories can explain it. “We would be lucky,” the political scientist Joshua Goldstein remarks in his 2001 book War and Gender, to find that war is totally determined by our biology. We could just “find the hormone or neurotransmitter” that inhibits lethal behavior and “add it to the water supply like fluoride. (Instant peace, just add water.) Unfortunately, real biology is a lot more complicated and less deterministic.

A new book from science journalist John Hogan takes a look at some of the scientific approaches to ending the human drive to go to war. 

The above is an excerpt published at The Atlantic. In that excerpt, he also touches on theories of female inclusion in war and other gender based approaches.

Oh yeah, you know I’mma get this one.

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Source: The Atlantic

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