A Natural History of Peace
Robert M. Sapolsky is John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. His most recent book is "Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals."
Reprinted by permission of Foreign Affairs (January/February 2006 edition). Copyright 2006 by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
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