Sex and War How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World

Why do war and terrorism exist? Why do we set out to kill members of our own species intentionally, when few other animals do so? And why are sex and war inextricably linked?

Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOG, is the Bixby Professor at
the University of California, Berkeley. A graduate of Cambridge University
and trained as an obstetrician and research biologist, his profession
has taken him all over the world. Potts led a medical team into
Bangladesh immediately after the War of Liberation in 1972, and he has
worked in many other war-torn places including Vietnam and Cambodia,
Afghanistan, Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Liberia, and Angola. His most
recent books are Queen Victoria’s Gene and Ever Since Adam and Eve: The
Evolution of Human Sexuality.

Thomas Hayden is a freelance journalist who writes frequently about
science, medicine and culture. Formerly a staff writer at Newsweek and
U.S. News & World Report, his articles and reviews have appeared in
more than twenty publications, including National Geographic, Nature,
and The Washington Post. He is coauthor of On Call in Hell: A Doctor’s
Iraq War Story, a 2007 national bestseller. He lives in San Francisco with
his wife and fellow writer, Erika Check Hayden.