Love and hatred manga

The author argues that there are specific turning points in evolution Structures and behavioral patterns that evolved in the service of discrete functions sometimes allow for unforeseen new developments as a side effect In retrospect they have proven to be pre adaptations and serve as raw material for natural selection to work upon Love and Hate was intended to complement Konrad Lorenz s book On Aggression by pointing out our motivations to provide nurturing and thus to counteract and correct the widespread but one sided opinion that biologists always present nature as bloody in tooth and claw and intra specific aggression as the prime mover of evolution This simplistic image is nonetheless still with us all the regrettably because it hampers discussion across scholarly disciplines Eibl Eibesfeldt argues that leaders in individualized groups are chosen for their pro social abilities Those who comfort group members in distress who are able to intervene in quarrels and to protect group members who are attacked those who share those who in brief show abilities to nurture are chosen by the others as leaders rather than those who use their abilities in competitive ways Of course group leaders may need beyond their pro social competence to be gifted as orators war leaders or healers Issues of love and hate are social in origin and hence social in consequence Life has emerged on this planet in a succession of new forms from the simplest algae to man man the one being who reflects upon this creation who seeks to fashion it himself and who in the process may end by destroying it It would indeed be grotesque if the question of the meaning of life were to be solved in this way In language that is clear and accessible throughout arguing forcefully for the innate and preprogrammed dispositions of behavior in higher vertebrates including humans Eibl Eibesfeldt steers a middle course in discussing the development of cultural and ethical norms while insisting on their matrix of biological origins Love and Hate The Natural History of Behavior Patterns