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So, we could be forgivenfor believing it, when nearly every word is fiction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Current research shows that our species narrowly survived extinction in the last Ice Age only because we evolved to become inherently friendly, conciliatory, and nonviolent-all feminine attributes. During that time, we retreated into rich, verdant landscapes that contained foods that didn't run away from us or bite back; plant foods that our bodies preferred. The verdict is clear: Our original biological and social programming is nonviolent.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e So, what changed? What turned us from goddess-worshiping, plant-eating peacemakers into god-worshiping, animal-eating warmongers? \u003ci\u003eThe Red Planet\u003c\/i\u003e answers this question by proposing a Gendered Landscapes Theory, or GLT. In short, the GLT asserts that geography shaped the early human mind, which in turn shaped its first cultures, which were originally nonviolent. Much later, and in a few critical instances, geographies that favored hyper-masculine traits encouraged animal cruelty, punitive gods and religions, and social inequalities. However, we'll see that it didn't have to be that way, even in harsh landscapes. 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William Hatcher's memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Marble Room\u003c\/i\u003e, explores this question by taking readers on an archetypal adventure of self-discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The author grew up in a racist, religiously supremacist milieu in rural America. Life was safe and predictable until his parents divorced when he was a young teen. Attempting to rewrite the end of his parents' marriage and salvage his worldview, he married an evangelical woman, but that, too, ended in divorce. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Desperate to redefine truth, he left home to serve in the Peace Corps, teaching geography at an all-girls' boarding school in Tanzania. His Bible Belt racism and religious beliefs crumbled as the challenges he faced escalated; glimpsing death on holy peaks, meeting ancestor spirits in sacred caves, and receiving the leopard's blessing from elder shamans. 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