“[A] thought-provoking and important book. It provides just the kind of careful and lively treatment one would expect from Daly, an accomplished evolutionary psychologist and a pioneer of applying Darwin’s insights to criminal behaviour. . . . I liked this book more than I wanted to, not least because Daly can really write, conveying complex ideas in easy-to-understand and evocative prose. He meticulously builds the already well-known but still often-resisted case that homicides, being largely male-on-male, are rooted in the fierce competition that almost all male mammals exhibit, primarily for mates. This is not comfortable reading for Romantics who think human culture is to blame for turning our inherently peaceful natures violent, or for gender atheists who believe sex is a continuum of self-identified mental states. Daly also demolishes the prejudice – from which many of us suffer, especially as we grow more sensitive to the problem of domestic violence – that men are homicidal maniacs who prey largely on helpless women. In truth, in every country with a non-negligible homicide rate, men kill men far more often than they kill women, by a worldwide factor of almost 4 to 1.”
—Morris Hoffman, New Scientist
“Martin Daly is one of the world’s great experts on violence. With over thirty-five years of research behind him, he guides us through the controversies and shows that inequality really is the most important reason why some societies are plagued by violence while others are almost free of it. If you want to understand the evidence, he can’t be bettered.”
—Richard Wilkinson, author of The Spirit Level, and co-founder of The Equality Trust
“How come confrontations in one population, but not in another, so readily escalate into murder? Martin Daly makes a compelling case that what matters most is the degree to which the goods men most desire are unequally distributed. More importantly, Daly explains why. Killing the Competition provides a broadly-researched, carefully-reasoned explanation for why inequity matters—not just in theory, but in the worlds people actually inhabit.”
—Sarah B. Hrdy, author of Mother Nature and Mothers and Others: The evolutionary origins of mutual understanding
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