# The Dark Side Of Man

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- Authors: [Joshua Bilmes](https://www.bookquiver.com/joshua-bilmes), [Michael P. Ghiglieri](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-p-ghiglieri)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- ISBN: 978-07-3820-315-7
- Published: 2000-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In The Dark Side of Man, Michael Ghiglieri, a biologist and protégé of Jane Goodall, takes on one of the most highly charged debates in modern science: the biological roots of bad behaviour. Beginning with rape, and moving on to murder, war, and genocide, Ghiglieri offers the most up-to-date, comprehensive look at the male proclivity for violence. In a strong narrative voice, he draws on the latest research and his own personal experiences,both as a primatologist and as a soldier,to explain that male violence is largely innate, a product of millions of years of evolution. In the process, he debunks many of our most clung-to, politically correct" notions: that the differences between men and women are strictly due to socialization, that rape is really about power,not sex,and that genocide is only possible with a single madman at the helm. Well-argued, evenhanded, yet never dull, this important book illuminates the darkest impulses of the male psyche, and suggests ways for modern society to curb them.