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Evolution and the Human-Animal Drive to Conflict

A Psychobiological Perspective
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Evolution and the Human-Animal Drive to Conflict examines how fundamental, universal animal drives, such as dominance/prevalence, survival, kinship, and "profit" (greed, advantage, whether of material or social nature), provide the basis for the evolutionary trap that promotes the unstable, conflictive, dominant-prone individual and group human behaviours. Examining this behavioural tension, this book argues that while these innate features set up behaviours that lean towards aggression influenced by social inequalities, the means implemented to defuse them resort to emotional and intellectual strategies that sponsor fanaticism and often reproduce the very same behaviours they intend to defuse. In addressing these concerns, the book argues that we should enhance our resources to promote solidarity, accept cultural differences, deter expansionist and uncontrolled profit drives, and achieve collective access towards knowledge and progress in living conditions. This entails promoting the redistribution of resources and creative labour access and avoiding policies that generate a fragmented world with collective and individual development disparities that invite and encourage dominance behaviours. This resource redistribution asserts that it is necessary to reformulate the global set of human priorities towards increased access to better living conditions, cognitive enhancement, a more amiable interaction with the ecosystem and non-aggressive cultural differences, promote universal access to knowledge, and enhance creativity and cultural convivence. These behavioural changes entail partial derangement of our ancestral animal drives camouflaged under different cultural profiles until the species succeeds in replacing the dominance of basic animal drives with prosocial, collective ones. Though it entails a formidable task of confronting financial, military, and religious powers and cultural inertias – human history is also a challenging, continuous experience in these domains – for the sake of our own self-identity and self-evaluation, we should reject any suggestion of not continuing embracing slowly constructing collective utopias channelled towards improving individual and collective freedom and creativeness. This book will interest academics and students in social, cognitive, and evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences, palaeoanthropology, philosophy, and anthropology.

Author Biography:

Jorge A. Colombo, MD, PhD, is a Former Member of the National Research Council (CONICET) (Argentina), Director Emeritus of the Unit for Applied Neurobiology (CEMIC-CONICET), and Former Fellow of Ford Foundation (USA), Foundation´s Fund for Research in Psychiatry (USA), NIH (USA), A. von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), DAAD (Germany), British Royal Society (England), and IBERDROLA (Spain).
Release date NZ
July 31st, 2023
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
15 Tables, black and white; 56 Line drawings, black and white; 56 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
254
ISBN-13
9781032481616
Product ID
36401381

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