Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
May 2024 · Macmillan
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The evolution lecturer and front man for the punk band Bad Religion discusses how the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray.
Population Wars is a paradigm-shifting look at why humans behave the way they do and the ancient history that explains that behavior. In this eye-opening book, Greg Graffin points to where the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray. Through tales of mass extinctions, developing immune systems, human warfare, the American industrial heartland, and our degrading modern environment, Graffin demonstrates how that misunderstanding has allowed humans to justify war even when other solutions may be available. Along the way, he reveals a paradox: When we challenge conventional definitions of war, we are left with a new problem—how to define ourselves.
Population Wars is a paradigm-shifting look at why humans behave the way they do and the ancient history that explains that behavior. In this eye-opening book, Greg Graffin points to where the mainstream view of evolutionary theory has led us astray. Through tales of mass extinctions, developing immune systems, human warfare, the American industrial heartland, and our degrading modern environment, Graffin demonstrates how that misunderstanding has allowed humans to justify war even when other solutions may be available. Along the way, he reveals a paradox: When we challenge conventional definitions of war, we are left with a new problem—how to define ourselves.
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Marc Broe-Vayda
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June 4, 2025
I was shocked to be presented with so much knowledge about science by a punk rock vocalist! This book does explain evolution and the science of population dynamics very clearly. The topics of natural selection, immunology, biodiversity, pandemics if plague or ebola, and also 17th century conflicts involving communities in New York State are described in detail and fascinating. But, as a punk rocker and record company executive, I was wondering when he had time to research and write books. I don't know what to say when competition is admired and I wish I could aspire to learn as much as this title - a textbook in a novel - could teach, but I am just average compared to this author!
About the author
GREG GRAFFIN is the lead singer and a songwriter in Bad Religion. He obtained his PhD in zoology at Cornell University and a masters in Geology from UCLA. He has lectured at UCLA and Cornell and is the coauthor of Anarchy Evolution, with Steve Olson. He received the Bryan Patterson Prize from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the Rushdie Prize from the Harvard University Humanist Chaplaincy, the American Humanist Association Arts Award, and the Sapio Prize from the International League of Non-Religious and Atheists. He travels regularly between the cities he considers home, Ithaca, New York, and Los Angeles, California.
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