ABOUT BOOK

How is it possible that people kill each other? ~And above all: how is it possible that people who are able to ~peacefully live with each other at one moment, can kill each other ~at another one? ~These are fundamental questions about the human condition – ~questions that religions, philosophers and scientists have been ~wanting to solve since times immemorial and that continue ~to fascinate us today (Browning 1998; Harrison 1995; Morris ~2015). So you may perhaps be wondering why I am posing such ~deep and essential questions at the start of a lecture that is meant ~to tell you something about our prehistory?