The End of War is not inevitable

I read John Horgan's The End of War a few month ago now, but I haven't gotten around to saying much about it. Part of the problem is that I don't know what to think. It's a small book which manages to wander in many different directions, and the primary focus is Horgan's mantra that war is not an inevitable fact of the human condition. Since I agree with that proposition much of the argumentation was lost on me. And yet there is one aspect of the book which was notable: a disputation of the Richard Wrangham's work in Demonic Males. I'm still quite a fan of Wrangham's thesis, but over the years I've become much more skeptical of one of the primary methods he employs: extrapolation from another ape (in his case, chimpanzees). Similarly, I'm also skeptical of those who claim that we're more more like bonobos (here's looking ...