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Survival of the friendliest. Why women choose friendly men, young people avoid aggression, and other paradoxes that will help you understand yourself better.

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Survival of the friendliest. Why women choose friendly men, young people avoid aggression, and other paradoxes that will help you understand yourself better.
14.99 €
Anthropologist and doctoral student Brian Hare has made an important discovery in science: the most profitable survival strategy is friendliness. It is this mechanism that allowed Homo Sapiens to stay alive and thrive, wolves to love humans, bonobos to create a paradise, and a Soviet scientist to make a global breakthrough in genetics. But this has a downside - we are cruel to those we do not consider our friends. Man is capable of dehumanizing enemies and destroying entire nations. It's all because of the same mechanism that has evolved empathy and mercy in us. Brian Hare has traveled to Novosibirsk, where he met domesticated foxes, and to the Congo River, where he studied monkeys. He looked into the darkest corners of human history: genocide, forced sterilization, chauvinism, racism. This study explains the wars of the past, the rise and fall of empires and modern politics, and most importantly, why it is so important for us to have common interests and help those close to us.
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