Por qué odiamos

Discrimination, exclusion, conflict and violence are as old as humanity. Our time is witnessing a revitalization of social tensions, political polarization and the rise of populism, and Europe is once again the scene of a war. This book seeks to answer a question that is more pertinent today than ever: why a social species like Homo sapiens hates itself so much. We wage wars and are prejudiced against our fellow men. We discriminate based on nationality, class, race, sexual orientation, religion and gender. Why are humans both so sociable and so evil with each other? The renowned philosopher Michael Ruse travels to the roots of social conflict to, from evolutionary biology, anthropology and archaeology, unravel the rationality of the heights that human hatred has reached, such as the two world wars or the horrors of the Holocaust. Ruse finds the secret to the paradoxical nature of the hateful social animal in our tribal evolutionary past, when ten thousand years ago we turned from hunter-gatherers to farmers, a change that paved the way for modern civilization. And it is that our modern minds still house the minds of the stone age. Combining rigorous arguments with an entertaining and accessible style, and providing a wide collection of historical examples, Why We Hate is an essential work to understand the biology and culture of war and prejudice.