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Gottschall endures extremes of pain, occasional humiliation, and the incredulity of his wife to take us into the heart of fighting cultureculminating, after almost two years of grueling training, in his own cage fight. Gottschalls unsparing personal journey crystallizes in his epiphany, and ours, that taming male violence through ritualized combat has been a hidden key to the success of the human race. Without the restraining codes of the monkey dance, the world would be a much more chaotic and dangerous place.
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