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“Our earliest ancestors evolved a psychological switch that allowed them to dehumanize and kill members of their own species, and our modern weapons help too, by depersonalizing killing.”

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

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